Hannah Harlow
Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updike’s Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
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- Reading books about resistance like this, I always think, how did they know? How did they know it was time to take these decisive actions now? Anyway, our bookstore is closed today for the national shutdown and it wasn’t an easy decision to make.
- I love Philip Pullman and there were sections of THE ROSE FIELD that absolutely demolished me.
- Was just thinking that I’ve been seeing LOTS of people using this phrase and I’m not sure everyone knows what it means.
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- Reposted by Hannah HarlowRemember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
- Reposted by Hannah HarlowVoting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
- Reposted by Hannah HarlowThe guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
- I was recently trying to make someone understand how good and important these books are. Should have just sent them this.
- I came in at 91 but, like, it’s my job.
- NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
- Lots of super interesting info in here but I’m struck by the fact that 4% of readers account for nearly half of books read last year.
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- Thanks yes this is my life right now. Who needs sleep.
- I asked a customer if she wanted the book she was buying wrapped. Customer: Oh, but they’re so feminine and this is for a man. Me: 🤔 Customer: Fine, I’ll take that one that’s less feminine. Me: Which is…?
- We are at that time of the season when I could use your deep cut favorite Christmas albums. I love me some Weezer Christmas, the classics, Kacey Musgraves Christmas, a Very Special Christmas hits my Gen X sweet spot - but all day every day in the store, I need something different now.
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- Read 90 books this year, worked 15 or so of them into my annual round-up for @cogwbur.bsky.social. Not bad for a 1000-word piece. 💙📚 📚👀 #books #readers #booklovers www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
- Nothing makes me feel more like mother of the year than being a retail worker with a sick kid in December. “Oh you’re feeling poorly and want a hug? Go find your father.”
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- Oh wow this Liquid Glass update sucks. I wish I hadn’t done that.
- Cold this morning but I have this 18-pound catloaf to keep me warm while I write.
- Reposted by Hannah HarlowSure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
- Looking for a new mystery series I decided to try a Department Q book but nobody mentioned to me how racist it is? The sexism is only slightly less bad? Am I supposed to find the protagonist lovably flawed? Because I just find him to be pretty gross. Feel like I need to abandon ship.
- The duo behind the Book Shop AND Four Books a Fortnight being cute in our smocks.
- It seems people like listening on Apple the most so here’s the link to Apple!
- Listen and let us know what you think!
- I get a little punch drunk by the time I reach title #604 in a catalog, but I'm pretty sure THIRTY LOVE for a gay tennis romance is the best thing I've seen in a while. (Actually would have preferred FORTY LOVE but what can you do. (Damn, it appears to be taken.))
- For Banned Books Week, I wrote a piece about reading dragon books with my 13yo and how things got…complicated. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
- This article captures a lot of what has been on my mind lately about the industry (and then some). A good read. “It’s on readers to look beyond the season’s biggest titles that they’re being spoon-fed by major publishers.” We try to encourage this in the store! thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
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- Is this donation money countdown thing kind of messed up? Oh no, kids, actually you don’t get this money hahaha so fun #emmys
- Halfway through this!
- If you walk into a bookstore and see a bookseller crying, ask us what we just read.
- Saw some art last week. This was my favorite, at The Campus in Hudson, NY. www.thecampusupstate.com
- Last night I cleared some books off the nonfiction table and a dozen local bookstore owners came and ate pizza around it. It was pretty great. Dinner in a cozy bookstore! Clinging to the joy of that fellowship as I read the news this AM, which these days always requires a general bracing.
- I don't know, I decided to start a blog. Some thoughts on books and bookselling: www.hannahharlow.com
- Sunday morning read, the fictional account of Penelope Fitzgerald’s real-life trip to Mexico. Highly enjoyable so far, somehow the writing keeps you on your back foot in the best way.
- I’m hearing a resounding thumbs up.
- Seriously, someone talk us out of Four Books a Fortnight.
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- You cannot opt out of reality!
- We are very hot and will be sleeping all day.
- Hala Alyan’s memoir I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME is well worth your time. Gorgeously written in short vignettes it embodies the effects of a family’s displacement from their homes (Gaza, Kuwait, Lebanon) over time and generations and how to live with that and survive and endure and rebuild.
- This book is so bonkers. I am mostly just along for this wild ride trying to absorb gems of truth and on page 167 I am comforted by the fact that a bookseller goes about bookselling as reality erodes (France, 1940) and is like, yeah, just read some Simenon already. This is basically me.
