Folks, we’ve hit a milestone – our 30th book giveaway! To celebrate the month of love, we took a slightly different approach and hid a thematically heavy book, but it’s one that focuses on some really important topics of self-acceptance (and, in many ways, self-love), moments for reflection, and the importance and power of storytelling….
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A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
About the book, from HarperCollins: “Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of—dangerous, the ultimate shame.” Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the…
Thank you, Downtown Tucson Partnership’s Social Justice Committee!
We’re only in the second month of 2024 (hello, February!), and the good news keeps coming! We’re excited to announce that we’ve been awarded an $800 “Downtown Tucson For Everyone” grant through the Downtown Tucson Partnership’s Social Justice Committee! This program awards grants to events and programs presented in Downtown Tucson that demonstrate a commitment…
Submissions Open NOW: Visual Poetry of Tucson Zine!
Friends! We have an exciting announcement 🙂 The rumors are true: we’re collaborating with Amanda Meeks (of Oustpokin’ & Bookish) and the UA Poetry Center on creating a “Visual Poetry of Tucson” zine! Here are some basic details (and some links to learn more!) Have you ever written a poem using images instead of text?…
Thank you, Vantage West Credit Union: February Book-Hiding Sponsor!
As many of you know, we have been working hard to raise $10K to keep the book-sharing momentum going in 2024! We’ve had some great success (thanks to nearly 70!!! of you who’ve donated through our PayPal fundraising campaign – and offline through outright gifts), but we still have a ways to go. That distance…
Twenty-Ninth Tome Giveaway
Can you believe it? This month was our TWENTY-NINTH book giveaway! To kick off the new year, we hid 30 copies of Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane all over Tucson! This month, the gnome’s helpers visited A LOT of coffee shops and other cozy/covered/enclosed spaces. It was a (rare) rainy day in Tucson, and it…
Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
About the book, from Macmillan: “Two grooms. One mother of a problem. Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he’s gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother’s farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn’t know it yet. It’ll be an intimate affair….
Happy New Year from the Tome Gnome!
Before 2023 comes to a close and we welcome 2024, we wanted to take a few minutes on this chilly (but absolutely gorgeous) Tucson morning to thank all of you for supporting us and our work to spread book joy in 2023. We had a BLAST of a year. Here’s a little rundown of what…
Twenty-Eighth Tome Giveaway
Happy Holidays, and Merry Christmas weekend to those who celebrate! (And happy weekend of escapist reading, last-minute shopping, and food prep…) 🙂 During this twenty-eighth book giveaway, I had a truly magical, holiday-filled day hiding 30 copies of A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers all over Tucson! This month’s book was selected because it’s…
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
About the book, from Tor/Macmillan: “Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never…
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