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Ordering a personalized blind date with a book has never been easier📚
How many times have I said our blind dates will be available online? These listings aren’t just for folks who live over yonder. Locals who would like a special order curated just for them can place those through Etsy, too!
Take a peek, help us meet our 1 sale per day goal if you feel so inclined, and send a message with any questions!
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Operation Save the Bookstore is officially in full swing, and this is one of the pieces I’m most excited about!
Join us for the first of our new author series: The Author & the…
Ever wonder how authors write scenes as if they’ve lived the experiences first hand? The Author & the… is a conversation series offering readers a front row seat to the conversations authors have when becoming their characters and stepping into the fictional worlds they create.
Listen as writers chat with experts, asking the questions we all have, getting the answers we all want.
In this conversation, the author, Christa Carmen, will be in conversation with the mortician, Jenna.
🔗https://www.bookaround.net/upcoming/the-author-the-mortician
05/30/2026
I had intended to make a cute little hopeful video about this, but despite being hopeful, even the thought of Operation STB failing makes me sad, so you get a couple of slides with a long caption instead. Sorry :/
Operation STB = Operation Save the Bookstore. Here’s the sitch:
Book Around has always been a little passion project. Author consulting (shoutout ) is both a) the bread and butter, and b) the piece of the business that I love most. Don’t yell at me for that! I love my bookstore too, but when push comes to shove, supporting authors in the way I know best will always be my priority.
NOW that said, I don’t want to have to choose. I want both. No, we aren’t going bankrupt. But also no, the bookstore does not do well enough on its own to support itself.
The consulting side is funding somewhere around, um, 70% of the bookstore. I’m eternally grateful that that side of the business has grown to do so well that it can afford to keep my little baby bookstore afloat. But just because one side is thriving doesn’t mean I can easily justify keeping the loss leader around. The amount of effort the store requires to just barely make rent (just rent... not the $$ to cover inventory, pay wages, other overhead...) is incredibly difficult for me when I also have what is essentially an entire other business to uphold. My clients depend on me. That will always be the priority.
What I will not do is:
- Let the bookstore negatively impact my work for my clients
- Make the decision to close without trying ABSOLUTELY everything first., because I know that Flori Fundamentals continuing to grow and Book Around becoming a (consistently) successful bookstore and bookish event space can both be true
Here’s the sitch pt. 2
It’s a long story, but I thought I had more time. I have 60 days. With a lease that ends at the end of August, I need to have made a decision and informed my landlord of my plans by August 01. Enter: Operation STB!
Everything we’re doing to keep Book Around ✨booking around✨ is in the graphic, so go look at that. The caption is for all the boring stuff anyways. If you’ve made it this far,
05/22/2026
Let’s play a game of “where’s Alyssa today?”
Find me and my books at the Foster Fairgrounds tonight, now until… 8:30?
Regular shopping hours in store tomorrow (Saturday) 10-5 and Sunday 12-5. We’ve restocked after one of our busiest weekends since opening last weekend!! (See you back there with next weekend 05/30)
Another successful event, in the books! (Get it?)
As always, biggest thank you to for putting together these events
If you visited our table and snagged yourself a cutie little blind date, share it and we’ll repost!
Find us at Mulligan’s *almost* every Saturday (and in store!). In the meantime, we’re open today, Sunday, 12-5!
On this episode of where did my love for reading take me…
Anywhere there’s a book, count me in!
Hi friends, the bookstore will be closed today. Hanging out with our mommas!
And just like that, another year of Thrillerfest is in the books!
A huge congratulations to all of last night’s award nominees and recipients, and to on another successful year. Let the countdown to next year begin!
What better time to celebrate books than a rainy Saturday morning in NYC?
It’s always a pleasure seeing bookish friends, this time celebrating and her wonderful work in the reading room . As always, fabulous hosting by
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1005 Main Street Unit 2117
Pawtucket, RI
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| Tuesday | 11am - 7pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 7pm |
| Thursday | 11am - 5pm |
| Friday | 11am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 11am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 12pm - 5pm |
