Jesse The Reader is a book-loving blogger who frequently posts humorous videos about the thoughts that run through his mind on his visits to bookstores, or when he contemplates his reading-related patterns.
Two dozen additional humorous bookish posts from a year’s worth of Facebook. Enjoy!
Found at The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page, July 9, 2022From the Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page, July 8, 2022From Jane Baker’s Facebook page, June 23, 2022From The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page, June 12, 2022Cartoon by Sarah Kempa; found at The New Yorker Cartoons’ Facebook page, June 10, 2022Found at Carol Lewis’s Facebook page, April 19, 2022From Diane E. Morgan’s Facebook page, February 23, 2022Posted by Katie Joy to Literary Jokes & Puns’ Facebook page, February 19, 2002Posted by Arlyn Mesperoz Orquiza to Bookoholics’ Facebook page, February 9, 2022From Bookstr’s Facebook page, February 4, 2022Found at Gillian Gussack’s Facebook page, January 24, 2022; origianlly posted to Library Matters Facebook page, January 20, 2022Found at The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page, January24, 2022Posted by Christine Tillmann Van Gorder to Literary Jokes & Puns’ Facebook page, January 10, 2022Found at Sarah Gordon’s Facebook page, December 18, 2021Found at Bookstr’s Facebook page, November 16, 2021Published in the New York Times Book Review; found at Bookstr’s Facebook page, November 12, 2021Posted by Tom Jackson to Literary Jokes & Puns’ Facebook page, November 10, 2021Found at Bookstr’s Facebook page, September 15, 2021Found at Bookstr’s Facebook page, September 14, 2021Found at the Facebook page of For Reading Addicts, September 15, 2021Posted by Anne Duffin to The Book Hangout Spot’s Facebook page, July 22, 2021Found at The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook page, May 6, 2021Posted by Waweru Trump II to The Book Hangout Spot’s Facebook page, July 23, 2021 Found at Bookoholics’ Facebook page, February 1, 2022
Two librarians (“Mary” and “Holly”) have a Facebook page featuring weird, blatantly sexist, embarrassingly out-of-date, or otherwise cringe-worthy book covers they are confident are lurking in public libraries throughout the land. You might want to give a look-see at some of the gems they’ve uncovered.
Five years ago, Portland’s Powell’s Bookstore staff posted to its blog a series of bookish terms they feel should become part of the everyday parlance of booklovers everywhere.