Wowza! During this seventh Tome Giveaway, I had a great day traversing the city AND running around the Tucson Festival of Books (my favorite local bookish event of the year!). I ended up hiding 15 tomes around the festival and 15 tomes around town. Some photos from my adventure last weekend are included in the…
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“Black Love Matters” edited by Jessica P. Pryde
About the book, from Penguin Random House: “An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people…
Thank you for the love, KGUN9!
This gnome has more exciting news to share! Earlier this week (March 8), Tucson Tome Gnome was featured in KGUN9 in a wonderful story from reporter Megan Meier. You can watch the news story here! The gnome’s helpers met with Megan a week earlier to chat about all things books, Tucson, and the joy of…
Thank you so much, Friends! (and an update)
Friends! If you don’t follow us on Instagram, you may not have heard… but we recently met our GoFundMe goal of raising $5K to cover the costs of books for the remainder of 2022!!! Exciting! And it all came together in about 2 weeks. Our minds are blown and our hearts are full. So, how…
6th Tome Giveaway: February 20, 2022
Wowza! During this sixth Tome Giveaway, I had a great day traversing the city – hiding books in some new locations that I hadn’t been to before! Thank you to those of you who suggested new locations 🙂 I ended up hiding 30 tomes around the city. Some photos from my adventure last weekend are…
“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
About the book, from Penguin Random House: “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the…
Support the Tucson Tome Gnome!
Friends, Tucson Tome Gnome has some exciting news! We now have a GoFundMe page to help support our work in bringing random bookish joy to our friends and neighbors in the Tucson community! We’ve had so many people reach out and ask about how they can support us, and we’re excited to share that this…
Fifth Tome Giveaway: January 2022
Friends! It’s 2022, can you believe it? Not only that, but the first month of 2022 is now over (what?!?!?). This holiday season was hectic… and since the gnome was still recovering from the holidays (but couldn’t let the first month of 2022 pass without giving a book away), the gnome decided to do another…
Wowza! Thanks so much, #ThisisTucson!
Friends! Tucson Tome Gnome has an exciting announcement! If you follow us on social media, you’ve probably already seen the news… but this week TTG was featured on This is Tucson, an affiliate of the Arizona Daily Star! We had such a great time chatting with Elvia Verdugo about TTG’s mission, and she’s written a…
Meet the Tome Gnome’s Helpers!
Have you been wondering who is behind the Tucson Tome Gnome? Wonder no more! The Tucson Tome Gnome is run by three good friends who share a life-long love of all things bookish. One evening during the summer of 2021, these three friends met for dinner (burgers!) and chatted about how wonderful it would be…
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