Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week’s teaser comes from The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss.

Opening a bookshop in 2011 struck many people as crazy. After all, masses of independents had already closed. The future of American bookselling – if there was a future – was Amazon. Yet Parnassus’s ultimate success came not despite Amazon but because of it.

This book has been so interesting to read! If you like history and you like books, definitely check this out.

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten (or Five) Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone

This one was both easy and hard for me, mostly because I tend to read a little bit of everything, especially these days. Here are a few that stand out:

1. Feed by Mira Grant: I had never, and never wanted to, read about zombies, but this book was part of a readalong I was following and so I jumped in. It was more than just zombies, it was dark and twisted, politcal and personal, with a twist I did NOT see coming. And I absolutely loved it.
2. Paper Towns by John Green: This one may seem strange, but before this, I had read almost exclusively fantasy for a really long time. I started following John and Hank Green on their YouTube channel right when Paper Towns was released (so John was talking about it a LOT) and decided to check it out. Now it’s one of my favorite books.
3. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill: This one pushed me out of my comfort zone in a different way – it was my first read with an in-person book club. I only knew one person there, which made it even harder for my little introvert self, but almost two years later, I am so glad I went. This is a really good book, too!
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin: Similar to the book above, this was my first read with an online book club, or at least one that I was comfortable enough to share my thoughts with. My social anxiety sometimes transfers to online stuff (it’s why I’m barely on social media) so interacting that way was a big step for me.
5. Maus by Art Spiegelman: A lot of these picks were first experiences, and this one is the same. Maus was my first graphic novel. It was assigned to me in college and is one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever read. I takes a horrific time in history (the Holocaust) and brings it down to a more intimate view.

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Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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