Bubbles and Books

Amanda has created another bookish game to challenge Ellyn on her smarts. Pen Name or Real Name, where Amanda reads a name and Ellyn has to guess if that's the authors given name, or one made up to publish under. Can you guess them all correctly? Find out by listening to this week's episode of Bubbles & Books! Cheers!

Back again with a new episode of Bubbles & Books! Your favorite poppin' podcast. Amanda & Ellyn share books that made them readers as children, as well as discuss out Cheesy Summer Reading Challenge! There are lots of great books coming out this week, and we've got the list to get you started. 

Last week our community faced a tragedy due to gun violence. We continue to implore you to call your representatives and ask for change to be made. 

Amanda, Ellyn & Rachel headed to the Twin Cities and visited 10 bookstores. They met with store owners and booksellers, explored the beautiful indies that the area has to offer and of course bought many books along the way. 

Due to last week's tragedy at Uvalde, we did not release a new episode. We encourage everyone who listen's to this podcast and lives in the United States, to join us in contacting your representatives at the local, state, and federal levels, to call for common sense laws that are proven to reduce gun violence in all its forms. 

An exciting episode featuring two of our booksellers Mariah and Sarah, who are also now Dog-Eared book club hosts! Amanda & Ellyn chat with the duo about their new book club Found in Translation.

The Found in Translation book club tours the globe by reading translated works of world literature! Through incredible books from authors and translators abroad, we’ll explore distant countries, cultures, communities, and landscapes as we broaden our horizons and become better global citizens. You can find the list of books they plan to read this year by following this link! 

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The Power of Storytelling is real. And we encourage you to seek out stories from different perspectives.

Storytelling allows all experiences to be shared and consumed by readers who many need those stories, or to help people better understand someone else's experience from our own. We stand by those with uteruses making decisions for themselves. 

How do you organize your bookshelves? Is it by alphabetical order, color coordinated, height or maybe something else? This week Ellyn & Amanda share their shelf (or lack of) organization. They'll chat about all the ways in which they like to store books, if they're someone who collects multiple copies or what they think of certain methods of organization. Hear about all the exciting new releases coming out and what's poppin' at the store this week.

We have a busy few weeks coming up at the store, so Ellyn decided that for today's episode to play a game with Amanda called "Thriller or Romance". For this game Ellyn searched the interwebs to find the most ridiculous thriller book and romance book titles so she could dramatically read the to Amanda and have her guess what type of book it is. And it's not as easy as it may sound.

We are collaborating with five other indie bookstores in central Iowa for Indie Bookstore Day! We would love for you to participate not only in the joy and fun of Indie Bookstore Day, but the Central Iowa Independent Bookstore Crawl on Saturday, April 30, and all through the month of May. At your first stop, pick up your "bookstore passport" to have stamped at all six bookstores to be entered to win the GRAND Prize! Adventure to all these bookstores on a solo trip, or with all the bookish people in your life. Passports are only available on Saturday, April 30, at any of these six indie bookstore locations. Complete your passport throughout the month of May, and turn it in to your last bookstore stop, to be entered for the grand prize as pictured. When you've received two stamps, you will start earning a 15% discount to use on future purchases at any location, beginning Sunday, May 1.

What author(s), no matter what they write, do you buy their books? This week's topic of conversation was inspired by bookstagrammer Megan, @The_Spines. She recently did a reel of authors she will always buy their work. Ellyn & Amanda discuss which authors are on their list. Share with us who your auto-buy authors are!

It's time for another episode of your favorite podcast!

Play This or That with Amanda & Ellyn. Amanda leads the game going over the preferences for how they like their books. Want to play too? Check our Instagram stories to participate!

There are a lot of fun things happening at the store this week like trivia and story time. And we will be open this Sunday on Easter!

This week is a HUGE WEEK for new releases in hardcover, paperback and even audio! Ellen is gone, so Amanda has invited Bookseller Jess to help with talking about the many new books hitting shelves this week. You'll as always hear about the current reads, and what's poppin' at Dog-Eared Books in Ames. 

Buy Denise Williams' new audiobook The Love Connection and support us by purchasing it from Libro.fm, https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593631171-the-love-connection. Make sure you choose Dog-Eared Books Ames as your local indie bookstore to support!

Don't miss author Tirzah Price at Dog-Eared Books on April 11 at 6 PM to get a copy of her book signed!

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