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Wherever you are, we’re hugging you from here. We hope you’re doing well and experiencing good health due in some small way to being more conscious of your vitamin C intake, naturally or otherwise.
This week, another form of self care; out of sheer love from one small business to another small business. My oldest and favorite pastime is reading. As a kid I remember loving going to the library or small bookshops and getting lost in the stacks. I’d lose track of time and my mom would always have to come looking for me or send one of my siblings after me. So many titles have been forgotten but I can still remember some story lines of books as far back as grade school.
As a once-upon-a-time big book retailer started taking over the city and online ordering became the norm, small bookstores filled with passionate bibliophiles who loved to talk shop unfortunately became less and less common. I always lamented this. The NYC as I knew it was fading.
Then one day in the past several years I was happily meandering the West Village and there IT was. An oasis. A beacon welcoming me like a long lost friend. A bookstore that looked like it had been there forever. I stopped in my tracks. I couldn’t believe it. Giddy to begin with, when I walked in I was even more giddy to see the teeming activity. It seemed a true NYC neighborhood haven; an independently owned NYC business thriving. Three Lives & Company.
If you enjoy meticulous customer service with people passionate about their books then Three Lives & Company is the business for you! If you’re not sure what to read next, or exactly what you’re looking for, please email them at info@threelives.com. Collectively their book knowledge runs deep so you may be happily surprised by their suggestions. I strongly advise subscribing to their newsletter for nothing but good news of new releases and book recommendations. Their last newsletter reminded me of a long ago desire to read The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch and introduced me to a memoir of a chef coming out in September I must read and oooh, this other title sounds like my kind of book. . . . They specialize in special orders and have upped their online ordering.
In this time of sheltering in place and shuttered brick and mortars please consider supporting your habit of entertainment and edification with books. Real paper ones. Not just the digital kind like this newsletter. While you’re at it, please support a small NYC business that's been around since 1978.
As I mentioned, they do special orders and also offer pre-orders, gift certificates and for the true avid reader/book lover: Book-A-Month Club.
Enclosed is their latest list of New in Paperback and TL&C Bestsellers.
Please enjoy!
Our next newsletter we’ll be extolling the benefits of collagen.
Until next we meet!
Mahalo;
Mrs. Bob
New In Paperback at TL&C
On Sale Now
Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane (Penguin)
Circe by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris (W.W. Norton)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Vintage)
Spring by Ali Smith (Anchor)
Releasing May 5
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake (Flatiron)
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Holt)
Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer by John Glynn (Grand Central)
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler (Penguin)
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (Scribner)
Correspondents by Tim Murphy (Grove)
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl (Random House)
Orange World by Karen Russell (Vintage)
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth)
May 12
The Body in Question by Jill Ciment (Vintage)
May 26
The Yellow House by Sarah Broom (Grove)
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani (Penguin)
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
Our Man by George Packer (Vintage)
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
~ The Three Lives & Company Bestseller List ~
1. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
2. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (Crown)
3. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove)
4. Normal People by Sally Rooney (Hogarth)
5. Actress by Anne Enright (W.W. Norton)
6. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)
7. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (William Morrow)
8. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Vintage)
9. Weather by Jenny Offill (Knopf)
10. Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (Vintage)
11. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Harper)
12. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)