Ok. How scary is Hereditary? Like. On a scale of Haunting of Hill House or Mother being medium to the Exorcist or Deliver Us From Evil being more moreness. Asking for a friend who’s considering watching it solo.

Happy solstice, witches!

The way I hate Evri. Just the other day, perfect service. Zero complaints. The past three days: unable to deliver for some unknown reason. Do I think the parcel has gone missing? 100%.

I’ve spent the day thinning out the bookcases. I’m here to tell you I’ve moved around 150 books to the downstairs to give away to friends (they’re coming round tonight) and then to donate left-overs to our local charity shop - and I am unable to see ANY difference on the shelves.

The pollen today. Actually out to unalive me.

Todays weird bookshop customer moment: hi, do you sell clip frames? Me: no, we sell books. Her: oh I know I thought I’d ask. Me: maybe check with the gallery (two doors down) or Snappy Snaps. Her: but why? Me: they might have clip frames? 🤷🏼‍♀️

My HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks

I just wrote to my MP about META and AI and the copyright infringement and theft of our works. I am calmer now, so I could write decent words, and not just !£!$ like that. So I hope he responds. I've met him in the past and he seems a genuinely kind man.

It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #retweet. Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! So

Hello, mateys! I’m after books set in Florence, Siena & Tuscany, please. Fiction only as I already have a lovely book on Brunelleschi’s Dome. Many thanks! Also not Under A Tuscan Sun because read it a billionty years ago.

So, last night during the DnD campaign my lovely elf ranger was mortally wounded. We’re gaming with complete noobs and their reaction to my character dying was so pure? I felt so bad for them. There was trembling chins and wibbles. Bless their innocence.

I’m the NO MORE QUESTIONS person.

The first thing I did in the bookshop yesterday was buy my signed copy of this new book THE HUNT FOR THE GOLDEN SCARAB by @MGLnrd and the first thing I did this morning was take pictures of it with a golden scarab & a canopic jar. 🤷🏼‍♀️🥰

Holy shit. That thunderclap roiled for a good ten seconds. It’s set off all the alarms down the road.

Hello, bibliophiles. I've realised I've not done any bookstacks this year yet! For which I apologise, of course. So here we go, a small thread of new / newish books, that we are loving in the shop currently.

Hi chaps! Any recs for Florence - places to eat / visit. Obvs the Uffizi is a given. TYIA.

Time for the traditional Christmas cheese board courtesy of @paxtonscheese - we’ve been buying our cheese from them for about 20+ years. And they’ve never let us down. 🙌

Cakes have been baked. 1 x chocolate cake & 1 x Basque cheesecake a la @Nigella_Lawson

There’s Red One FF. I’m laughing so hard. Thank you fanfic writers.

Oh! Happy Krampusnacht, my friends!