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…
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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…
Event Recap and THANK YOU to The Daily Wildcat
As you all know, we participated in just a few (LOL) events last weekend! We wanted to hop on and give a quick recap of those events and also share a big shoutout of thanks to The Daily Wildcat for featuring us earlier this month 🙂 But, first things first: Last Saturday night, we attended…
A Weekend of Events!
It’s Saturday, December 2, and this gnome is getting excited about the two fun events that we have planned for this weekend! If you’re reading this Saturday afternoon, it’s not too late to join us tonight at the Reveille Men’s Chorus premiere of their winter show, Seasons Screenings! We will be hiding a few books…
Sharing Book Joy: How to Help on Giving Tuesday!
Friends and supporters – I know this post (and the email that our subscribers get about this post!) will probably get lost in the onslaught of Giving Tuesday donation requests that everyone undoubtedly is receiving (ha, I know my inbox was full of donation requests this morning!), but I hope that perhaps a few of…
Twenty-Seventh Tome Giveaway
Happy Thanksgiving, happy long weekend (for those who get to enjoy a day or two off from work), and happy weekend of escapist reading, for those who celebrate 🙂 During this twenty-seventh book giveaway, I had a wonderful day hiding 30 copies of Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty all over Tucson! This month’s…
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
About the book, from Tin House: “Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding…
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