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…
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…
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