Sad news

I just learned that one of my all-time favorite used bookstores, Ace Books and Antiques, is about to close. Unfortunately it’s about an hour and a half away and I don’t think I can get there before they go out of business. My mom and stepdad called me from Culpeper this morning after seeing a […]

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1881: Love Letters

This week I received a lovely gift from a coworker, Gene, who was looking to lighten his bookshelves at home. Knowing I had my little obsession with advice books (he came to my Valentine’s Day presentation at the Library of Congress), he so graciously gave me a book written in 1881 called National Encyclopedia of […]

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