Rec | BOOKS AS GIFTS

Rec

📖

working in publishing means I use my discount to get everyone books as birthday/holiday gifts, and turns out it is SO fun selecting books for everyone based on their interests and loves and reading habits!! I think even without a discount this is a fun way to keep gift prices low without losing a personal touch 🩷

@coolfriendlyman

Aug 26, 2024

see likes

Comments

Make an account to reply.

@coolfriendlyman

Ask them what they’ve been into reading lately! if you want to be sneaky you can frame it like you’re in a reading slump and need recs 👀

Aug 26, 2024

@cncl

I think this is great! I just have trouble figuring out people’s reading habits without them being on Goodreads. How do you do it?

Aug 26, 2024

Related Recs

Rec

📘

Buying books as gifts

especially from independent publishers.

@casts

Dec 4, 2024

Rec

📚

READING BOOKS I ALREADY OWN

love treating my shelves like an indie bookstore! the owner has fantastic taste and everything’s free

@nicolefar

Mar 3, 2024

Rec

📚

Library book sales (again)

Yes yes other recs have said this but im sharing the joy of getting a book 4 a QUARTER! Yes, 25¢. Feeling like a little lad.

@mudskppr

Aug 29, 2024

Top Recs from @coolfriendlyman

Rec

🥔

Frozen hash brown patties

they make breakfast fun 🌞 I prefer the patties to those big bags of loose potato shavings. 1 patty fits perfectly on a piece of toast. add some garlic powder in the pan. I don‘t even want to know what kinds of oils and chemicals are in them to make them so good. do not tell me!!

@coolfriendlyman

Jan 26, 2024

Rec

📕

anything by michael deforge

My fave cartoonist. I love so many cartoonists dearly but his books are what pushed me to dive into the genre as an adult. Personal faves are Leaving Richards Valley, Sticks Angelica, and Brat. He writes such distinct characters, the way he draws is so inventive, and every book of his is a perfect sad/funny/often-dystopian combo.

@coolfriendlyman

Jan 11, 2024

Rec

📕

some extras 🌻

Other good ones that I got from the BKPL recently and liked — Passing for Human & Let There Be Light by Liana Finck, Roaming by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Wendy by Walter Scott, and The Short While by Jeremy Sorese

@coolfriendlyman

Jan 11, 2024