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We continue to grow and have recently added two new staff members to the team here at Righton Books. So welcome Tibbett and Erika!

Tibbett:

We had an in-depth discussion about The House of Spirits Monday evening. We had very mixed feelings about this book. Most of us appreciated that it was well-written, but not all of us enjoyed it, and a few of us didn’t finish it.

I enjoyed our discussion of A Man Called Ove. Although I found this book a little slow at first, when I returned to it a few weeks after starting it, it really took off for me.

Almost everyone enjoyed A Spool of Blue Thread, and not just those of us who are already Anne Tyler fans. Everyone agreed that book captured the essence of Baltimore, as other Tyler books do. We also enjoyed the inter-family dynamic and dialog, especially the dancing around important issues, which seemed very realistic. Many of us found beautiful simple prose on every page of this book. Some of us found that reading this was a relief after the dense language of The God of Small Things.

We have refreshed the courtyard alongside Jittery Joe's and have added new four-top tables effectively doubling the amount of outdoor seating we have available. Come on down while the weather is lovely. 

“Little ill-facedness, little minor monster in a child’s dress . . . little thing . . . little howl . . . little crumb of protruding flesh . . . little statement on mankind . . . little . . . little?” he concluded, not certain in the end of what I was, only that I was little, a little of something.

We are now offering 20% off for teachers and librarians ordering for their school. 

20% off includes new books in-store, online and most special orders. 

We can even set up an online account for you to use to get the discount on our web site. Email us at orders@rightonbooks.com for more details. 

We had a heartfelt discussion about Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry. Most of us thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was full of interesting characters and situations, and we found it to be an entertaining, and therefore powerful, way to make a statement about the history of women’s rights.

I really enjoyed our discussion of The God of Small Things. Overall, I think we appreciated this very densely packed book, although some of us found it to be very intense, and even frightening at moments (or were too squeamish to finish it.) This was balanced by an undercurrent of comic relief that had some of us laughing out loud.

Our shelves are nearly full and we have thousands of great new books coming in this summer, so it's time to make some room. For the first time, we are discounting select titles in most of our book categories. In the store look for a Righton Books price label on the back of the book indicating the regular price and "Our Price". Online look for any title that shows the red "Discounted" banner on it. 

Some of these discounts are as high as 80%. 

As part of our expanded gift department we are now offering a huge selection of pens and other writing tools. Here are just some of the types we now offer:

• brush pens
• rollerball pens
• highlighter
• erasable pens
• fine line markers
• mechanical pencils 

And, we carry the following brands:

We are thrilled to announce the addition of Crane Stationery to our gift department. This 250 year old company still makes some of the nicest paper products available anywhere. We have a large assortment of notecards, correspondence cards, stationery and more. Most are beautifully embossed. We even have a couple of sets of notecards for children. Be sure to stop by to see the full selection. 

The latest in the hugely popular Dog Man series hits the shelves this Tuesday, March 28! 

As we continue to bring in over a dozen new gift vendors, check out these great new bookmarks from our friends at IfUSA. Some, like the ones pictured, are magnetic, which is very cool. All are just $3.99. 

I enjoyed our discussion of Year of Wonders on Monday evening. Overall, we had mostly positive feelings about this book. It was beautifully written, with lovely descriptive passages that felt very realistic, and based on a real place! We appreciated the realistic depiction of a survivor who must everyone else's work, as often happens in dystopian stories, too. The ending was powerful, as Anna chose to take care of herself and her children by putting herself in novel situation, in a more intellectually advanced society, but as a multiple wife.

Not everyone liked Case Study, and I can understand that completely. None of the characters were likable, and some of us found all of them to be uninteresting, too. The non-linear format of the book was further obfuscated by the unreliability of the (unnamed) narrator of the journals. The prose was straightforward, and lacked the lyrical beauty of passages we have enjoyed in other books.