Jun 11
So look, I was very wrong about it being a light month.
It's the 11th.
My wife has informed me we need to revisit the state of the shelves.
seen from Argentina
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Russia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from Australia
seen from South Africa
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Mexico
So look, I was very wrong about it being a light month.
It's the 11th.
My wife has informed me we need to revisit the state of the shelves.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - Signing Line at 5:30 pm, Talk begins at 6:00 pm
Are you in North Carolina? Do you like good books and people talking to each other about good books? Do you enjoy air conditioning or the sound of a sharpie scratching across paper? Are you looking for a place to sit down and talk about good dogs?
All of these are good reasons to join me and Ursula Vernon for the launch event for The Dog Knight on 5/16 at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill! It’s literally five minutes down the road from UNC where I went to college and met my wife!
Come join us! You can bring other books for me to sign, but I’d really love for you to get this one too! And I’m sure Flyleaf would like that too.
Sarah Dessen Merch
Flyleaf Books is Sarah’s independent bookstore located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Besides selling books, trading used books, and accepting online orders from non-locals, one of the store’s services is offering signed copies from local authors and Sarah has her own author page.
Important to Know
You only pay for the book. The signing and personalization is at no extra charge. The only “catch” is orders are shipped based on availability of what’s in stock.
Hardcovers are priced higher and have to be special ordered.
Along for the Ride is available in paperback with or without the Netflix sticker on it (otherwise known as the “Movie Tie-In”).
There are also options to order the physical audio book CDs, e-books, mp3s, and some Spanish editions.
The more obscure (for lack of a better term) the edition the longer it may take to arrive in store, ship to you, and be received.
All of the paperbacks are readily available on the Flyleaf shelves at this time and while the prices differ, they are the cheapest option.
Shipping
All orders ship through USPS media mail. The first book has a $5.99 shipping charge and $1 is added for each additional book. Hypothetically, you could order all 14 Sarah Dessen books in paperback and ~only~ pay $18.99 in shipping.
Ordering
To get your signed copy/ies, search for the titles you desire and add them to the cart. Upon checkout look for the “Order Comments” at the bottom of the page. It will be below your payment and contact information.
Fill in your personalization request - a special note, your favorite quote, your name, someone else’s name, only her signature, the date, etc. - review the order, and submit it.
And that’s it!
You can order as many as you want, in any variation of signed and/or personalization, and Flyleaf will let Sarah know to stop by.
The books will ship when she’s done and you’ll have an almost-direct connection to Sarah. 😉
Keep in mind that, while the service is offered throughout the year, Sarah usually travels with her family in the summer and if she’s on tour or it’s the holidays order completion times can vary.
This is Gaby, who is a feline bookselling associate at @flyleafbooks who really enjoys King Rat by China Miéville 😎
May JOMP Photo Challenge: May 17, 2022 Favorite Bookstore
Guendelsberger discusses her experience working in an Amazon warehouse, a San Francisco McDonald’s, and a North Carolina call center at Flyleaf Books on August 1.
As it happens, Emily Guendelsberger and I had the same job, though not at the same time. We were both news editors at the Philadelphia City Paper. I left in 2010. She came on a few years later and stayed until the storied alt-weekly closed in October 2015.
A few months before City Paper went belly-up, Guendelsberger set out to fact-check a claim being propagated by Uber that its drivers could make $90,000 a year, which she did by becoming an Uber driver and writing about her experience. She found, of course, that the $90,000 claim was wildly optimistic; she made about $9 or $10 an hour, as did most of the drivers she spoke with.
The story got a lot of attention, including from book publishers, so when Guendelsberger found herself unemployed later that year, she decided to dive into a field that she found immensely fascinating: the intersection of technology and low-wage work, and how technology enables large corporations to control every facet of low-wage employees’ lives to extract profit at the expense of their humanity.
The result is On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane, published in July by Little, Brown and Company. At turns biting, darkly funny, and infuriating, On the Clock acts as a sort of spiritual successor to Barbara Ehrenreich’s seminal 2001 book Nickel and Dimed.
In it, Guendelsberger tells the stories of three jobs she held: as an Amazon warehouse worker in Kentucky; as a call center employee for Convergys in Hickory, North Carolina; and at a McDonald’s in downtown San Francisco.
“The point of the book,” she told me, “is not that these three are outliers. The system that these three companies are very successful within is really brutal on low-wage workers across the board. It’s just that some companies are better at programming stuff than others.”
I misheard her: “You said they’re better at programming us?” I asked.
“Programming stuff,” she corrected, then paused. “‘Programming us’ is not that far off, honestly.”
Ahead of her appearance at Flyleaf Books on August 1 — which includes a Q&A with former INDY staff writer and Splinter news editor Paul Blest — I spoke with Guendelsberger about what she learned from her experiences and what the future of low-wage work looks like.
Click link for interview.
Emily Guendelsberger discusses On the Clock 7 p.m. Aug. 1 -- Flyleaf Books 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Chapel Hill 919-942-7373 -- flyleafbooks.com
My order came in!
I knew collected Earthsea was big. I don't think I rightly understood how big. Also, good friend Thomas is here to help me on my way in my continuing Terra Ignota education.
And two new pick ups!
We're in a bit of a quiet patch for weekly pickups so I decided to snag the baseball book I'd been eyeing for a while.