#At the Bookstore Cafe

[abellinthecupboard]

At the Bookstore Cafe

After a long browse for some other story to make of our lives, we sit in uneasy truce over what she will or will not eat. We drink our chamomile tea and pretend I’m the good mother, she the good daughter. Three more patients from the ward drop themselves in chairs nearby, tripping the rictus scale as she calls it. She looks at them like mirrors. She baits me — “World-class starvation artists, Mummy” — waving her empty cup toward them. “You can’t quite say we ‘egg’ each other on, can you? Not even that would pass our lips.” I say nothing. My arm half lifts and falls. Hunched in her ladderback chair, she would flinch, scald, if touched, this flesh once safe, once perfect, that grew inside me. So, we drink our tea. A Starbuck’s barista in a bearsuit brings them their rosehip and waddles away to welcoming squeals from the Children’s Hour. Once upon a time, I would have said, “O children, frisk and play, be good and stay away. The poison’s sweet. Beware the forest’s paths and what they give to eat.” Now, I don’t know. Her fingers like twigs tap, tap at her cup. She looks past the tykes running down the aisles, faces paint-whiskered as mice, then slowly tears her napkin into confetti. My hands lie in my lap like stones. Chairs scrape, the sisterhood rises. I look at her, at me; Witch or Gretel makes no difference, we are ourselves our own ovens.

— Robert Bolick (source)

[academic-vampire]

𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔶? 🍵

[logophilist1982]

Used books aesthetic

[flowersforfrancis]

[happyheidi]

[tea-tuesday]

travel tales: copenhagen, denmark

my good law school friends and i went to denmark for our bar trip and had a relaxing and cozy time☕️🚲

[bookaddict24-7]

I went to Great Books & Cafe at Williamsford Mill in Ontario this past week and it was incredible. There were books from the floor to the ceiling, and three floors full of a used book paradise. I may have purchased a few books 🤭

[ariasmontage]

a good brunch heals my soul.

[iamblubaby]

coffee break part 2

part 1

[thatneoncrisis]

i do think that like dunking on the dream of a "queer cafe" or whatever on this site when its pretty obvious that what a lot of people are asking for are just non-alcoholic/ overly stimulating spaces to meet others in the community Is kinda fucked up not gonna lie

[beansbuilds]

Book Store & Café

Built on a 40x30 café lot, this build is a fully functional coffee shop and bookstore. Thank you to all the cc creators. Enjoy!

Download here 📚

[academic-vampire]

𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 🚈

[logophilist1982]

Book café

[ghost-n-butteredtoast]

Dimitrescu Books

Chapter 47 <<Link

They Didn't Believe Me

“After Miranda, I decided to keep any relationships private until I knew they were worth sharing with you girls. It is not until now, being with Jessica that I felt I had found anyone worthy of sharing my personal life with, sharing what means most to me in this world, the three of you!”

Cassandra shook her head. “So you kept secrets–”

“I would hardly consider keeping my affairs pre-Jessica to myself as keeping secrets,” Alcina interrupted. The matriarch set her jaw and collected what poise she had left before continuing. “But yes, I thought introducing my young and impressionable daughters to what only amounted to nothing more than–” Alcina pursed her lips, trying to choose her words carefully in front of her youngest.

Dani rolled her eyes. “ Sex , mother. Just say se–”

[happyheidi]