Another Quick Note!

The Nature of Reading Newsletter | Spring | Week 12

Dear readers,

Thank you so very much for bearing with me—the newsletters will return as previously (somewhat) scheduled this Sunday! I always enjoy a Sunday morning newsletter, whether it be from Frenchtown Bookshop or The Marginalian, and I hope you do as well.

I wanted to get this newsletter out today to invite you to the new shop for our upcoming events—with all that is happening across the country and across the planet, one of the best ways to maintain hope and strength for resistance is to come together locally with people who care about our fellow human beings and our planet. Now that we’re fully moved into the new shop and have been officially open again for nearly a month, I hope to reinstate my goal of a free monthly craftivism club, but more to come on that soon.

For now, I come here with some of our usual offerings—our upcoming June Book Club and our first crafting event in the new space! Read more about both below.

Sunday’s newsletter will be a walk down memory lane, covering all that has happened this year from the beginnings of the shop move to the wonderful NJ Bookstore Crawl that happened just this past weekend. I can’t wait to share more behind the scenes happenings and thoughts with you in just a few days…

All best wishes,

Hailey

We’d love for you to join us for our first ever crafting event at the new space! Whether you’ve cross-stitched with us for the fall and winter birds or whether it’s your first time, I’m happy to help all levels of crafters get started on this sweet cross-stitch project. We can now fit about 12 people for our crafting events (with more seats possible later on!). I’d really love to see you here next week, for a wholesome evening of crafting and herbal tea. You can get your ticket here.

This month in The Nature of Reading Book Club we’re reading Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane.

As soon as I started reading the first pages of this book, I knew it had to be our next book club pick. Robert Macfarlane writes as beautifully as ever, weaving nature writing, poetry, and history into a lyrical tapestry. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to truly appreciate just how alive rivers are.

We hope you can join us to read and discuss this stunning book—you can get your copy here.