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Here's what Margaret read in May:A Prayer for the Crown Shy (Monk & Robot #2) by Becky ChambersO Sinners! by Nicole Cuf...
06/08/2026

Here's what Margaret read in May:

A Prayer for the Crown Shy (Monk & Robot #2) by Becky Chambers

O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy

Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich

Body Language by Meg Howrey (September 2026)

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV by Jack Balderrama Morley

And some thoughts:

Fewer books this month, but I was able to add a few favorites to my list of 2026 books - so overall, very good!

Louise Erdrich is maybe my favorite living author, and Python’s Kiss was immaculate. Often, short story collections - even great ones - have a few stories that are just not as good as the others. This collection is all hits, no skips! And the illustrations from Erdrich’s daughter, Aza Erdrich Abe, are so magical. Love everything about this book.

Looking for an academic treatise about reality television homes that is deeply tied to questions of the ethics of land ownership and the “American Dream?” Look no further than Dream Facades. At first, I wasn’t sure this was for me, but eventually, I settled in and absolutely LOVED my time with this book. SO smart! So insightful!

O Sinners! is one of the better cult books I’ve read in quite some time. I love Nicole Cuffy’s writing and her character development is really fascinating. Very nuanced story about finding meaning and purpose in community.

I finally read A Prayer for the Crown Shy and now I just want to start Monk & Robot over again and keep reading on repeat. What a gift Becky Chambers novella series is. If you’re craving books optimistic about humanity, these are for you.

Summer in Translation! Coming soon to a mailbox near you, Subscribers!
05/29/2026

Summer in Translation! Coming soon to a mailbox near you, Subscribers!

05/27/2026

✨Story Time is on PAUSE for the Summer✨

No more Saturday Story Time until September. We’ll miss you all!

05/07/2026

✨Thursday, May 7 at 6:15pm at Dotters Books✨
Riley Drake in Conversation with Lisa Quinn-Lee

Bring gently used or new paperbacks for a donation to Women’s Prison Book Project ( )

Coming your way, Book Club! Can’t wait for this one!
04/28/2026

Coming your way, Book Club! Can’t wait for this one!

✨Saturday, April 25✨Independent Bookstore Day at Dotters Books!10am-6pmA day to celebrate indies? Yay!✨The first five pe...
04/24/2026

✨Saturday, April 25✨
Independent Bookstore Day at Dotters Books!
10am-6pm

A day to celebrate indies? Yay!

✨The first five people through the door get a free Dotters & Suns Tee, designed by and printed by

✨We’ve got Exclusive Signed Indie Bookstore Day Editions, two new tote bags, and Independent Bookstore Day Pencils from (all IBD Exclusive Merchandise will be available in-store all day but not online until 6pm)

✨Find the Golden Ticket from and receive a year of audiobooks (12 free credits)

✨First ten customers to purchase children’s books will receive a free coloring book or activity book

✨Spend $25 and receive a free galley copy of a book

✨Delicious, amazing treats from while they last

✨Last day to complete the Western Wisconsin Book Crawl - so excited to celebrate this day with fellow indies

✨Story Time at 10:30am

04/24/2026

✨INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY✨
Saturday, April 25 from 10am-6pm at Dotters Books and Local Indies all over the country!

04/23/2026

✨TONIGHT✨
April 23 at 6:15pm at Dotters Books

CORY HAALA in Conversation with RYAN WEICHELT

P.S.: Thanks for participating in the Western Wisconsin Book Crawl, Everyone! You have until Saturday to complete your passports💖💖💖

Here's what Sara read in March:Odder: The Novel by Katherine ApplegateCleopatra by Saara El-ArifiThe Sentence by Louise ...
04/19/2026

Here's what Sara read in March:

Odder: The Novel by Katherine Applegate

Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

The League of Dangerous Young Ladies by J.A. Morgenstein (June 2026)

The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics by Michael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker

Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinsin

The Lion's Tale: The 29-year Hunt for the Person Who Killed Robert Pfeil by Robert Koran Weber

And some thoughts from Sara:

March already seems a little crazy.

One of the standouts is Antarctica, an early Kim Stanley Robinson, and having read much of his later work, I can tell by the different pacing and process, which is a different kind of wonderful. Antarctica can be summed up in this quote from the book, albeit, it took a rather round about and unexpected way to get there. "what it demonstrates very clearly is that what we think of as neutral objective science is actually utopian politics and worldview already. “

Dr. Osterholm’s book, The Big One, is fascinating and framed with a hypothetical pandemic (SARS-CoV3 godforbid) and how we COULD respond.

I’d never read Louise Erdrich, those of you that know me know I don’t tend to read contemporary fiction, and so I asked which one, if I had to have only one, would it be, and so I read The Sentence. It was great! It’s nuanced and interesting and of course, well written. And for me, who did not ride out the pandemic (the real one) in the United States, gave me a first real insight into what it was like in the Cities during that time.

Nine Goblins was adorable, Cleopatra had a wonderfully unexpected twist and Odder was POETRY!

04/16/2026

✨Saturday, April 18 at 10:30am at Dotters Books✨
A Very Special Story Time: Earth Month Edition - two stories AND Alena of will be leading an All-Ages Craft!

Join us!

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