#Book Mailer Boxes

[blackros78]

Just as a man serving a long sentence in prison will begin to live in despair about the time he recognizes that the effort to keep his sanity is going to leave him less of a man, so a fighter goes through something of the same calculation. The prisoner and the fighter must give up some part of what is best in him (since what is best for any human is more designed for prison - or training - than an animal for the zoo). Sooner or later the fighter recognizes something in his psyche is paying too much for the training. Boredom is not only deadening his personality but killing his soul.

Norman Mailer (The Fight)

[schweizercomics]

We're announcing the shoebox diorama display and contest for the public library today! 4 divisions: 5th grade and under, 6-8th, 9-12th, and adult. A fun activity by which folks can evangelize for their favorite titles.

Any other libraries that want to do this, you may freely use any imagery I post for yours.

Here's our rule/detail list, if y'all want it as a starting point:

Share the love of one of your favorite books by making a diorama! You can dramatize a memorable scene, show off a setting, introduce the characters, or whatever else you can think of. Use cut paper, clay, cardboard, toys, models, toothpicks, or anything else that you think might make your diorama shine!

Contest rules and details:

- Diorama should spotlight a particular book or book series

- Dioramas must be built/assembled in shoeboxes

-Keep imagery family-friendly

- No perishable food

Free new shoeboxes will be made available for pickup at the library starting September 7 at noon.

Finished dioramas can be returned to the library for display and voting between Sep 7 and September 21 during regular library hours; no submissions will be accepted after September 21.

Voting will be done by ballots in the library for each category. The categories are: 5th grade and under, 6-8th grade, 9th-12th grade, and adult.

There will be awards given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize in each category, including passes and gift certificates to local businesses, restaurants, and venues.

Voting will be open from September 24-27. Awards will be announced on Saturday, September 28th at noon.

There will be crafting material available to use at the library on September 7 and September 21. ---------------

And here are the boxes we ordered so that patrons could have easy access. At first I was thinking that folks should ONLY use the library boxes, but there's fun to be had in using your own, probably.

[genericpuff]

SO I just got my stay-flats in for mailing prints which means I'm one step closer to getting my online shop open <3

But what I WASN'T expecting to also show up inside the box of mailers was my pre-order copy of Covenant!

Apologies in advance because my photos aren't the greatest, but I wanna share some pics of it because I'm really impressed with how these books look and feel.

For starters, the actual cover designs. The front cover features stunning art and has a nice gloss cover, whereas the backside actually has a softer matte feel with gloss golden text which compliments the overall aesthetic of the book very nicely.

As for inside the book...

I was so relieved to see how well the formatting was done. Those who follow me here know I spend a lot of time bitching about webtoons-related stuff and one of my biggest gripes is how the webtoon format overall is very unfriendly to long-term publishing, as many creators don't anticipate eventually formatting for print (and Webtoons certainly hasn't helped as for years they've perpetuated the notion that print books are "dead", at least until it came to them making money 🍵) It's not an easy task to convert a vertical webtoon into a page format comic, but I'm happy to say that Lysandra's team here knocked it out of the park. The panel and text flow is smooth and easy to follow, they always take full advantage of the page space given to them, and the overall structure of every page feels very well thought out to work for the story it's trying to tell (as this is an action comic with fight scenes which can be tricky enough to pull off in page format, let alone converting from vertical format!) They've also gone out of their way to properly format the episode divides, so episodes (or as they're called in the story's stylization, "books") flow seamlessly with very little breakage, unlike what you would find in some webtoon-to-print books that often find the flow interrupted by episode title breaks every few pages. According to the credits page in the front of the book, we owe a lot of the formatting to layout designer Miranda Mundt and book designer Carey Soucy! Well done!

The print quality of the pages is also superb, printed on high-quality glossy paper which makes for stunning colors that have translated well from web to print. The darks are very dark which is necessary for a comic like Covenant which has a very earthy color palette; but when there ARE color pop moments of pink, red, and blue, they really shine. Of course, there is a downside to this, which is that the glossy paper WILL show your thumbprints in the darker areas (especially if you have particularly oily hands like I do, ech) but hey, it adds character and it's worth seeing the comic's art come to life on the glossy paper.

Sooo yeah! This is a very competent and well-made book from an awesome creator and if I have ANYTHING to snipe about just for the sake of it, it's that it's no wonder Webtoons tried to keep the creator from promoting their book launch, because it frankly outdoes a lot of WT's own publishing efforts LOL Congrats on your book launch Lysandra, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on Volume 2! <3

[bediscreetshop]

I'm working on making memo books for my shop! The only thing I gotta figure out is shipping lol. But I'm definitely thinking boxes rather than bubble mailers lmao

I have this one as well BUT I'm gonna change the notepad design cause it's just very boriiiiingg especially when you see how beautiful the original art style is

Each book has 4 Notepads with approx. 36 sheets each

[lady-harrowhark]

Sorry this is random, but I know you sell things online for extra cash, is there a specific site you recommend? I'm about to have to downsize *severely* for a move and I'd rather resell if possible to recoup some of the costs. Clothes, books, electronics will probably be the main things. Thanks <3

Oh man, good memory, I do! Almost all of my listings/sales are just things I've been decluttering, mostly books and clothes as well. I'm in the US so I can't speak for what platforms are available elsewhere, but I list on Mercari, Pango, and Poshmark, with a few things on Facebook Marketplace. Mercari is my favorite and gets me the most sales BY FAR. I list pretty much everything on there, and then I also list the books on Pango and clothes on Poshmark. I can't really speak to electronics, but if it's something heavy, you might have better luck listing on Facebook Marketplace to avoid shipping.

If you decide you want to sell (or buy), I have referral codes that gets us both a little extra 😏

Mercari: Use link https://merc.li/tM2aG7Z4b to sign up, if it doesn't autofill the referral code, it's VBFTYN. It gets you a $10 coupon for your first purchase and a $20 coupon if you make $100 in sales.

Poshmark: Use link https://posh.mk/X1ZHrmOzTPb to sign up, if it doesn't autofill the referral code, it's EMILYR1213. It gets you a $10 coupon for your first purchase.

Given that I only sell casually, I don't have any hardcore Systems or Strategies in place, but over time I have figured out a few things that I'll throw out there just in case it's helpful!

Price low, especially if you're downsizing with a deadline. Getting it sold and out the door usually outweighs the extra couple of bucks you could have potentially gotten if you were willing to wait around for someone to buy it at a higher price. Especially since the stuff I list is usually only a couple of dollars anyway, I figure it's more money than it brought me sitting in my closet.

Know what packaging you'll use for it BEFORE you list it. This is super annoying but that way you know exactly what it will weigh once it's packed up so you can choose the right shipping rate and you don't have to worry about scrambling to find the right size box or mailers later once it sells. I mostly reuse packaging that I have around from other things, but I have had to buy some mailing pouches.

Keep track of where you're storing anything you have listed for sale. I've had once or twice where I thought I couldn't find something I needed to ship out, but thankfully I've always found it after a few minutes. I keep everything I have listed in the same place, and if it's going to need specific packaging (e.g., anything other than the standard mailers I keep on hand), I store it in that packaging. Used books and clothes don't always sell super quickly even when they're priced low, so keeping it all organized means I can kind of "set it and forget it" with listings and still be able to find an item down the line when it does eventually sell. Long term storage is probably less of an issue if you're moving soon, but packing and moving is its own organizational hell regardless.

For cheap items, offering "free" shipping doesn't seem to help my sales. I factor the shipping fee into pricing (e.g., a $2 book would be priced at $7 to cover the $4.99 shipping) so it's not really "free", but Mercari in particular has gotten rid of the "free shipping" icon so when you search for something you can't tell from the results page whether it has free shipping or not - you have to click on the actual listing to see what the shipping fee is. In my experience, the majority of listings DON'T have free shipping, so when I'm looking at search results and see the prices, I'm always mentally adding on shipping. And if I'm already mentally adding on that $4.99 shipping or whatever for a used paperback book, am I gonna click on the $2 listing or the $7 listing? For higher priced stuff, it might be different, but I can't really speak to that.

Depending on what sort of timeline you're working on, I've heard some people have better luck bundling like items together and pricing super low, especially on Facebook Marketplace, like "Bundle of 10 size medium shirts, $5" sort of thing.

I'm always surprised at what sells quickly and what doesn't, there's really just no predicting it. I've had so many times where I've listed something cheap, figuring no one would buy it and I'd end up donating it eventually, only for it to get snapped up in minutes. I always figure it can't sell if it's not listed, so always worth a shot. A lot of it just comes down to having a listing up at the right time I suppose!

Anyway, that was a super long response but definitely let me know if you have more questions! Or if you just want/need to gripe about online sales or moving or whatever tbh. Best of luck with your sales and moving!!!!!!!

[starstruckbyacomet]

There Is No Safe Word (Part 2 of 10)

(Source) (Part 1) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 8) (Part 9) (Part 10) (Prewarning)

Neil Gaiman in 2002. Photo: Getty.

Editor’s note: This story contains content that readers may find disturbing, including graphic allegations of sexual assault & child abuse.

In The Sandman, the DC comic-book series that ran from 1989 to 1996 and made Gaiman famous, he tells a story about a writer named Richard Madoc. After Madoc’s first book proves a success, he sits down to write his second and finds that he can’t come up with a single decent idea. This difficulty recedes after he accepts an unusual gift from an older author: a naked woman, of a kind, who has been kept locked in a room in his house for 60 years. She is Calliope, the youngest of the Nine Muses. Madoc rapes her, again and again, and his career blossoms in the most extraordinary way. A stylish young beauty tells him how much she loved his characterization of a strong female character, prompting him to remark, “Actually, I do tend to regard myself as a feminist writer.” His downfall comes only when the titular hero, the Sandman, also known as the Prince of Stories, frees Calliope from bondage. A being of boundless charisma and creativity, the Sandman rules the Dreaming, the realm we visit in our sleep, where “stories are spun.” Older and more powerful than the most powerful gods, he can reward us with exquisite delights or punish us with unending nightmares, depending on what he feels we deserve. To punish the rapist, the Sandman floods Madoc’s mind with such a wild torrent of ideas that he’s powerless to write them down, let alone profit from them.

As allegations of Gaiman’s sexual misconduct emerged this past summer, some observers noticed Gaiman and Madoc have certain things in common. Like Madoc, Gaiman has called himself a feminist. Like Madoc, Gaiman has racked up major awards (for Gaiman, awards in science fiction and fantasy as well as dozens of prizes for contemporary novels, short stories, poetry, television, and film, helping make him, according to several sources, a millionaire many times over). And like Madoc, Gaiman has come to be seen as a figure who transcended, and transformed, the genres in which he wrote: first comics, then fantasy and children’s literature. But for most of his career, readers identified him not with the rapist, who shows up in a single issue, but with the Sandman, the inexhaustible fountain of story.

Neil Gaiman with estranged wife Amanda Palmer in 2010. Photo: Getty.

One of Gaiman’s greatest gifts as a story-teller was his voice, a warm and gentle instrument that he’d tuned through elocution lessons as a boy in East Grinstead, 30 miles south of London. In America, people mistakenly assumed he was an English gentleman. “He spoke very slowly, in a hypnotic way,” says one of his former students at the fantasy-writing workshop Clarion. He wrote that way, too, with rhythm and restraint, lulling you into a trance in the way that a bard might have done with a lyre. Another gift was his memory. He has “libraries full of books memorized,” one of his old friends tells me, noting that he could recall the page numbers of his favorite passages and recite them verbatim. His vast collection was eclectic enough to encompass both a box of comics (Spider-Man, Silver Surfer) from his boyhood and the works of Oscar Wilde he received as a gift for his bar mitzvah. For The Sandman, a forgotten DC property he had been hired to dust off and polish up, Gaiman gave the hero a makeover, replacing his green suit, fedora, and gas mask with the leather armor of an angsty goth, and surrounded him with characters drawn from the books he could pull off the shelves in his head, from timeless icons like Shakespeare and Lucifer to the obscure San Francisco eccentric Joshua Abraham Norton. Norman Mailer called it “a comic strip for intellectuals.”

Gaiman and the Sandman shared a penchant for dressing in black, a shock of unruly black hair, and an erotic power seldom possessed by authors of comic books and fantasy novels. A descendant of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gaiman had gotten his start in the ’80s as a journalist for hire in London covering Duran Duran, Lou Reed, and other brooding lords of rock, and in the world of comic conventions, he was the closest thing there was to that archetype. Women would turn up to his signings dressed in the elaborate Victorian-goth attire of his characters and beg him to sign their breasts or slip him key cards to their hotel rooms. One writer recounts running into Gaiman at a World Fantasy Convention in 2011. His assistant wasn’t around, and he was late to a reading. “I can’t get to it if I walk by myself,” he told her. As they made their way through the convention side by side, “the whole floor full of people tilted and slid toward him,” she says. “They wanted to be entwined with him in ways I was not prepared to defend him against.” A woman fell to her knees and wept.

Neil Gaiman with Henry Selick and Dakota Fanning at the Coraline premiere. Photo: Getty.

People who flock to fantasy conventions and signings make up an “inherently vulnerable community,” one of Gaiman’s former friends, a fantasy writer, tells me. They “wrap themselves around a beloved text so it becomes their self-identity,” she says. They want to share their souls with the creators of these works. “And if you have morality around it, you say ‘no.’” It was an open secret in the late ’90s and early aughts among conventiongoers that Gaiman cheated on his first wife, Mary McGrath, a private midwestern Scientologist he’d married in his early 20s. But in my conversations with Gaiman’s old friends, collaborators, and peers, nearly all of them told me that they never imagined that Gaiman’s affairs could have been anything but enthusiastically consensual. As one prominent editor in the field puts it, “The one thing I hear again and again, largely from women, is ‘He was always nice to me. He was always a gentleman.’” The writer Kelly Link, who met Gaiman at a reading in 1997, recalls finding him charmingly goofy. “He was hapless in a way that was kind of exasperating,” she says, “but also made him seem very harmless.” Someone who had a sexual relationship with Gaiman in the aughts recalls him flipping through questions fans wrote on cards at a Q&A session. Once, a fan asked if she could be his “sex slave”: “He read it aloud and said, ‘Well, no.’ He’d be very demure.”

But there were some who saw another side of the author. One woman, Brenda (a pseudonym), met Gaiman in the ’90s at a signing for The Sandman where she was working. On signing lines, Gaiman had a knack for connecting with each individual. He would ask questions, laugh, and assure them that their inability to form sentences was fine. After the Sandman signing, at a dinner attended by those who had worked the event, Gaiman sat next to Brenda. “Everyone wanted to be near him, but he was laser focused on me,” she says. A few years later, Brenda traveled to Chicago to attend the World Horror Convention, where Gaiman received the top prize for American Gods, the book that cemented him as a best-selling novelist. The night after the awards ceremony, she and Gaiman ended up in bed together. As soon as they began to hook up, the feeling that had drawn her to him — the magical spell of his interest in her individuality — vanished.“ He seemed to have a script,” she tells me. “He wanted me to call him ‘master’ immediately.” He demanded that she promise him her soul. “It was like he’d gone into this ritual that had nothing to do with me.”

Back to: Part 1, next: Part 3

[onedayakeshuake]

🎁 FINAL GIVEAWAY 🎁

Congratulations to the winners of the previous giveaway: @/Yamiku @/adnodisceomnis @/qifreymeows! 🎉

This third giveaway is our final and biggest one, with more items and 4 winners!

Also: 50% off shipping until the end of sales (Sept 30)!

Each winner of this final giveaway gets: 2 One Day books + 2 prints + 2 buttons + 1 enamel pin + 1 charm + 1 box!

Like/retweet this post until Sept 28. Extra entry: comment with your HC about how the boys get together as adults!

- Books are A- graded (description in our à la carte book option).

- Enamel pin is b graded (description in our à la carte merch option).

- Box shipped inside a discrete mailer.

- We're also running this on Twitter but only 4 winners will be chosen with a Wheel of Fortune!

- Shipping is included.

- Zine comes with a PDF version that will be emailed.

Last chance to get the zine! 😍

[shinesurge]

Shop news: down to four copies of volume 3 until late this August probably if that's something you're into! ALSO they have finally started making more affordable boxes in weird sizes, so after this trip to the post office I won't have to make weird frankenstein mailers for folks who buy exactly two books OR use a ridiculously huge box for folks who buy a whole set of books+specials. STONKS

[therecordchanger62279]

THE END OF AN AFFAIR?

     I think my life-long love affair with books is over. I’m not quite sure why. But I know that I no longer enjoy reading the way I once did. It takes me far longer to finish what I’m reading than it ever has. Writers I’ve read and enjoyed for years have begun to aggravate me. Instead of looking at my books with desire in my eyes, I view them with contempt. Instead of dreaming of having bookshelves filled with books throughout the house, I want what remains of my collection gone completely, and I look at my bookshelves now, and think, “Hmm…I wonder what else I could do with that space?” More than once this year I came very close to packing them all up in a box, and dropping them off at Goodwill.

     Since I retired in 2020, I’ve read 307 books. When I retired, I had more than 700 unread books on my shelves, and I had a plan to have them all read by 2028. But when our landlords suddenly sold the house we’d rented for 25 years out from under us without warning, I was forced to downsize. I got rid of something in the neighborhood of 70% of what I had, cherry picking what I believed to be the best – books I absolutely had to read. I’ve bought a few since we moved, and I’ve read 100 of the books I had left since May of 2022 – with increasingly disappointing results.

     Unlike most people I’ve met who read, I like a far wider variety of things. I like books related to music, biographies, history, genre fiction (mysteries, horror, science fiction, espionage), as well as science, sports, poetry, pop culture, sociology, short stories, plays, essays, and letters. I’m someone who has often spent more than a couple of hours browsing a well-stocked bookstore. But with the sudden devaluation of used books (where instead of offering you a paltry 50 cents or a dollar for a good title in mint condition, they tell you they can’t pay you for them, but if you just want to get rid of them they can send them to be recycled), I no longer have any reason to visit used bookstores, and there are now only two “new” bookstores where I live – neither of them close by, and I haven’t visited either in the past several months, and doubt I’ll go out of my way to ever visit them again. I used to visit the local book fair annually as well. But I no longer do that either.

     The only thing keeping me from dumping the lot of them is that I spent money on them, and I’d like to get some value out of them. Since no one wants to buy them – even on the cheap - the only value I can get from them is to read them. So, I tell myself that I’ve just had a run of bad luck, and that what’s left on the shelves will be better than what I’ve read the past couple of years. A look at my annual lists of books read reveals the kinds of books I’ve always read, along with many name authors I’ve enjoyed for years, and though it’s all there, I can count on one hand the number of truly great books I’ve read the last couple of years. The list of books that were so bad that I wished I’d never read them far exceeds that. Everything else falls into the category of “just okay” or “not bad” or “somewhat disappointing.” So, I can’t help thinking I’m at the end of the road, and maybe it’s time to pull the plug.

     What I do know is that the more you read almost any single author, the more likely it is that you will wind up hitting a wall, and swearing off ever reading them again. That’s happened to me with Anne Rice, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, J.K. Rowling, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Pete Hamill, and a few others. I still have books on my shelf by John Updike, Philip Roth, and Norman Mailer, but I’m not certain how much I want to read them – even though most of them were well-reviewed, and some critically acclaimed. That’s why they’re in my collection to begin with. I did my homework. I researched writers, ferreted out their best works, read books that are considered to be quite good, even classics, or masterpieces. They are, at the very least, highly regarded by those who are supposed to know. But much of it is disappointing.

     Writers all seem to have an agenda. All of them are obsessed with some theme or a particular point of view. Their works may seem diverse, but you begin to realize they’re making the same point, but in a different way.

     Writers also have annoying habits related to their style that I find myself increasingly unable to tolerate. For example, I can’t stand a writer that isn’t reader friendly. What I mean by that is a writer who thinks nothing of writing a single paragraph that stretches on for two or three pages. I don’t like writers who will use ten words when a single right word will do just fine. I don’t like writers who meticulously, and thoroughly research a subject, and then insist on using every last bit of it in the book rather than using only what’s relevant. I can’t count the number of non- fiction books I’ve read that have been ruined because the author refuses to edit himself, turning a great 400-page book, for example, into an unreadable 600-page doorstop. I don’t like the liberal use of words or phrases in a foreign language with no English translation. I’m not going to stop in the middle of a paragraph, and ask Google to translate a word or phrase from a book I’m reading in English. There’s a John Updike book called Memories of the Ford Administration where he does that throughout the book – sometimes whole paragraphs appear in French with no translation – not even a footnote! I’m not an advocate of book burning, but when I finished reading it I wanted to set it on fire. And I took two years of French in school, but not enough to navigate the volume of it in this book. It was simply unnecessary. But if you insist on doing it, at least put a translation in the footnotes. As a result, I’m wary of ever reading another Updike book again. (He also writes terrible dialogue, but that’s another issue.) And I can’t even write him a nasty letter complaining about it because the s.o.b. died a few years ago. Even an author I won’t mention who self publishes his own stuff, publishes in a wide page, soft cover format that is not in any way user friendly. The wider the page, the more the reader has to work to not lose his place. Not to mention the questionable practice of doing a wide page soft cover book of 500 pages that weighs more than my dachshund. Don’t make me work to read your book. If I didn’t enjoy his writing, I’d never read him again.

     I had to read a few of Norman Mailer’s books to realize that every one of his books (fiction, non-fiction or journalism) is about Norman Mailer. All of the Kurt Vonnegut books I’ve read seem to carry the same theme: WAR IS BAD! Okay. I agree, but what else ya got? James Ellroy writes very violent crime novels, but in far too many of them, one or more characters are decapitated! Really James? How often does that happen in real life? If On the Road hadn’t been a classic, Jack Kerouac would’ve struggled to get a contract to write another book. Every Philip Roth book I’ve ever read is about the trials and tribulations of being Jewish.

     But it’s not a case of reading the same authors every year, again and again, and just growing weary of them. I read a dozen books this year by authors whose books I’ve never read. But I cannot seem to find new authors who are worth reading that can actually write, and have something to say that I want to read.

     My wife reads a great deal, and she constantly finds new authors she likes, and they recommend authors they like, and so she’s able to keep everything fresh. Her tastes aren’t as diverse as mine, but her batting average as to what she likes is far higher than mine. I envy her success, and her luck. But I can’t even branch out and simply read something different because I already read books that are shelved all over the bookstore. So, it seems I’ve reached an impasse.

     I’m considering simply taking 2025 off from reading any narrative books at all, and just reading magazines or anthologies of short stories or essays. If you don’t like what you’re reading there, you can quickly finish and move on to something else. But I’m sure every time I walk into the closet, I’ll hear my books whispering to me, “Pick me! Read me now!” And after a month or two of no additional free space in my closet, I’ll throw in the towel, and start again.

     I know, I know. This is a first world problem. In some countries people can’t read at all. It’s just that most everything I once enjoyed doing has fallen by the wayside already. Now it’s happening with books, too? Jeez! The asteroid can’t come soon enough. (And as I was finishing this piece, a podcast tipped me to a new music book that I think would be a great read. Damned internet!)

[keshetchai]

SO I SEVERELY UNDERESTIMATED HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD WANT MULTIPLE VERY THICK BOOKS AT ONCE.

Please bear with me a little longer, as the book shipping boxes I currently own are 12 1/8" x 9 1/8" x 2" and a lot of these orders are thicker than two inches. so I will be measuring the size of each book pile (right now I have people's requests stacked on top of the flat cardboard folding media mailers I'd bought, which is how I was able to tell what was or was not going to fit in those boxes)

and then I will be weighing them (most of these are media mail, hooray!) before invoicing.

I've also put tentative orders and the updated list of books and now ALSO comics with prices into a sheet. I haven't gotten to listing art supplies, sorry. I wanted to make sure I got more methodical with the listings of books first. :)

[silverspleen]

Part of being like... A chronic collector hardwired to love surrounding myself with stuff, stuff everywhere, is to always be on guard for when I can get rid of stuff. Usually it's not the stuff I am collecting (dragons, books, and toys), but it's still easy to amass a hoard of things for various reasons and as long as I have the wherewithal to look at something and go "hm.... do I really need this?" Then I am still a collector and not a hoarder, thank you very much.

Anyway just broke down part of my cardboard box collection, which I had for selling things on ebay, but all of the stuff that I'm selling right now is small, and I have way too many boxes compared to stuff I'm selling/would potentially want to sell online, so my two (2!) box/bubble mailer hoards have become one hoard safely tucked away in my closet, and that frees up some space which is rad.

Also reduced the spider population, which like... I do like having spiders since they get rid of other bugs but having a bunch of cardboard bits and every time you move them baby spiders come out? Kind of annoying.

Have a big pile of clothing to get rid of too, it'll go to the free free market tomorrow first and then to the secondhand store afterwards.

Also rearranging things in my apartment and going through things in boxes is like zoo enrichment for me.

[brookston]

Holidays 6.19

Holidays

Artigas Day (Uruguay)

Baseball Day

Beggar's Banquets (Brazil)

Butterfly Day

Constitution Day (Seychelles)

Day of the Independent Hungary

Día del Nunca Más (a.k.a. Never Again Day; Argentina)

Emancipation Day (Texas)

Feast of Forest (Palawan)

Festival of the Coming Ice Age

Garfield the Cat Day

International Box Day

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN)

International Fathers Mental Health Day

Juneteenth (US)

Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

Laguna Day (Philippines)

Mass Market Paperback Book Day

Midsummer’s Eve (a.k.a. Midsommarafton; Aland, Finland, Sweden)

Midsummer’s Eve [Day before Summer Solstice]

National Ding Free Day (Canada)

National FreeBSD Day

National Heroes’ Day (Bermuda)

National Pets in Film Day

National Reading Day (India)

National Watch Day

Never Again Day (Uruguay)

New Church Day (Swedenborgian)

Pediatric Headache Awareness Day

Red Soda Celebration

Rye Day (French Republic)

Spooky Stories Appreciation Night

Surigao del Norte Day (Philippines)

Surigao del Sur Day (Philippines)

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Day

"War Is Hell" Day

World Albatross Day

World Sauntering Day

World Sickle Cell Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat An Oreo Day

National Dine Out Day

National Martini Day (a.k.a. Dry Martini Day)

Real Food Day

3rd Monday in June

National Tour Guides Day [3rd Monday]

Organic Act Day (US Virgin Islands) [3rd Monday]

Ride to Work Day (Motorcycles) [3rd Monday]

Rusalka’s Week begins (Honoring Divinity of Rivers; Asatru/Slavic Pagan) [3rd Monday]

Take Your Cat to Work Day [Monday of 3rd Full Week]

Independence Days

Mondero (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Thebes (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Asatru Alliance Founding Day (Asatru)

Boniface of Querfurt (Christian; Saint)

Cornelius Krieghoff (Artology)

Deodatus (a.k.a. Didier or Die) of Nevers (or of Jointures) (Christian; Saint)

Feralia: Day of Purification (Pagan)

Festival for Minerva (Ancient Rome)

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (Artology)

Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church; Martyrs)

Hildegrim of Châlons (Christian; Saint)

Jude (Christian; Saint)

Juliana Falconieri (Christian; Saint)

Martini Day (Pastafarian)

Pelayo (Positivist; Saint)

Princess Gwendolynda (Muppetism)

Robert Heinlein Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Romuald (Christian; Saint)

Ursicinus of Ravenna (Christian; Saint)

Zosimus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 28 of 60)

Premieres

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 2001)

Batman Returns (Film; 1992)

The Brave Little Toaster (Animated Film; 1987)

Bukowski (Film; 2013)

The Cannonball Run (Film; 1981)

Dancing in the Street, recorded by Martha and the Vandellas (Song; 1964)

Devil May Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dream for an Insomniac (Film; 1998)

The Enigma Variations, by Edward Elgar (Orchestral Piece; 1899) 

For Your Eyes Only, by Sheena Easton (Song; 1981)

Garfield (Comic Strip; 1978)

The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1997)

Hatari! (Film; 1962)

How to Save Your Own Life, by Erica Jong (Novel; 1977)

The Idler Wheel…, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2012)

I’m a Honky Tonk Girl, recorded by Loretta Lynn (Song; 1960)

Inside Out (Animated Pixar Film; 2015)

Jason and the Argonauts (Film; 1963)

The Last of Us Part II (Video Game; 2020)

Mulan (Animated Disney Film; 1998)

The Music Man (Film; 1962)

Porky’s Building (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

The Proposal (Film; 2009)

Purple Haze, by Jimi Hendrix (US Song; 1967)

Ramblin’ Rose, recorded by Nat King Cole (Song; 1962)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (UK Musical Play; 1973)

Rough and Rowdy Ways, by Bob Dylan (Album; 2020)

Roxanne (Film; 1987)

Streamlined Greta Green (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Superman II (Film; 1981)

Tim McGraw, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2006)

X-Files: Fight the Future (Film; 1998)

Today’s Name Days

Juliana, Romuald (Austria)

Božidar, Julijana, Romuald (Croatia)

Leoš (Czech Republic)

Gervasius (Denmark)

Sigrid, Siiri, Siivi (Estonia)

Siiri (Finland)

Gervais, Romuald (France)

Juliana, Romuald (Germany)

Paisios, Zosimos (Greece)

Gyárfás (Hungary)

Gervasio, Protasio, Romualdo (Italy)

Nils, Vaironis, Viktors (Latvia)

Dovilas, Dovilė, Ramunė (Lithuania)

Elling, Erling (Norway)

Borzysław, Gerwazy, Julianna, Odo, Protazy, Sylweriusz (Poland)

Iuda (România)

Alfréd (Slovakia)

Aurora, Gervasio, Romualdo (Spain)

Germund, Görel (Sweden)

Carisa, Carissa, Jarvis, Jervis, Karissa, Ralna (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 170 of 2024; 195 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 25 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 2 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 30 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 20 Sol; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 6 June 2023

Moon: 3%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 2 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Pelayo]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 91 of 92)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 29 of 32)

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1. Superior Protection for Goods

Shock Absorption and Cushioning

The inner bubble lining in Bubble Lined Courier Bags offers exceptional protection against shocks, drops, and bumps. Fragile and delicate items such as electronics, cosmetics, jewelry, or documents are well-cushioned throughout the delivery process, greatly reducing the risk of damage.

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Save on Shipping Costs

Compared to traditional boxes, Bubble Lined Courier Bags are significantly lighter. Their lightweight nature can help businesses save money on shipping fees, which not only benefits the business but can also translate to lower costs for customers.

3. Water and Tear Resistant

Ensure Safe Delivery in Any Weather

The durable outer layer of Bubble Lined Courier Bags is designed to resist water, moisture, and tearing. Customers appreciate receiving their goods in perfect condition even after exposure to rain or rough handling, leading to higher satisfaction and fewer complaints.

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Enhance Brand Image

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McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove = 'Moby-Dick of the plains

Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

edited by George Getschow University of Texas Press, 268 pp., $29.95

Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Simon and Schuster, 259 pp., $18.99 (paper)

In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry, with an introduction by Diana Ossana Liveright, 204 pp., $16.95 (paper) See All

When it came to ranking writers, the Texas novelist Larry McMurtry wielded the word “minor” like an edged weapon.

He used it to fix them in their place, recognizing that they had done something, were pretty good or better, were in the race—but didn’t make the cut.

Late in life he told a book dealer that he had a hard time naming any recent writer he judged really “major.”

“Mailer and Roth and Bellow,” he said, “I think all those guys are minor.”

Mailer, Roth, and Bellow—all minor?

It kind of takes the breath away.

But McMurtry was serious about literature.

A semester spent prowling the stacks in the Fondren Library at Rice University in 1954 taught him to know a great book when he read one.

He didn’t just frequent the library; he often spent the night there, sleeping on a couch.

The son of a rancher whose father was also a rancher, he had grown up in “a bookless town, in a bookless part of the state,” surrounded by ranchers.

He said his father “might admire a fine saddle” but cared nothing for books;

if he read, it was The Cattleman, the monthly trade magazine for ranchers. His mother was the same.

McMurtry remembered no books in the house, not even a Bible.

But the bookless world opened a crack in 1941 when a cousin, on his way to join the military at the outset of World War II, stopped by the McMurtry ranch and left a box of books for six-year-old Larry.

The nineteen books in the box ignited the passions that ruled the remainder of his life, first for reading, then for writing, and finally for finding, buying, and selling rare books.

Larry Jeff McMurtry, who died at the age of eighty-four in 2021, is a unique figure in American literary history, famous in three overlapping fields: as a writer of thirty-one novels, including Lonesome Dove (1985), which sold almost 300,000 copies in hardcover and won a Pulitzer Prize; as a writer of about fifty screenplays, including for Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he shared an Oscar with his writing partner, Diana Ossana; and as a rare book dealer with ultimately a stock of close to half a million titles.

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There will be a new giveaway every Friday with 3 winners each! Like and retweet this post until the 14th to join this week's giveaway.

This week's winners will be announced on September 15th!

Each winner gets: 2 One Day books + 3 prints + 3 polaroids + 1 enamel pin + 1 box!

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