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…
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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…
Fourth Tome Giveaway: December 2021
In December 2021, I decided to try something new and do an Instagram book giveaway! I thought it would be fun to give people a chance to win copies of all three books that I hid around town this Fall. It was so fun! Over 70 entries were received for the giveaway, and I’m excited…
Third Tome Giveaway: November 21, 2021
Wowza! During this third Tome Giveaway, I again had a great day traversing the city – from Pima Community College to Udall Park to ENR2 on the U of A campus – and everywhere in between. Like the prior two months, I ended up hiding 30 tomes around the city. Some photos from my adventure…
“The City We Became” by N.K. Jemisin
About the book, from Hachette Book Group: “Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a “glorious” story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn’t remember who he is, where he’s…
Second Tome Giveaway: October 17, 2021
Wowza! During this second Tome Giveaway, I again had a blast traveling around the city – from La Encantada to the MSA Annex to Reid Park to the Park Place Mall – and everywhere in between. Like last month, I ended up hiding 30 tomes around the city. Some photos from my adventure last weekend…
“Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
About the book, from Penguin Random House: “After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and…
First Tome Giveaway: September 12, 2021
Friends! I can’t stop thinking about how much fun I had this past weekend leaving tomes all over Tucson for you to find. I ended up hiding 30 tomes around the city in some of my favorite places. A few location hints are included in the collage above and other photos in this post! If…
“The House In The Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune
About the book, from Tor/Macmillan: “Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children…
