Welcome back to Friday, book nerds! Now that you’re winding down from the National Book Award longlist announcements, it’s time to start off your weekend right. Just in case you’re not too busy storming Area 51, here are this week’s top five tweets hand-selected for your bookish pleasure.
5. Real Recognize Real
A real penguin “interned” at our book distribution center! Thanks to @MarylandZoo for letting us borrow one of their animal ambassadors. pic.twitter.com/uIwFrb5FHg
— Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 (@penguinrandom) September 19, 2019
4. Weird and fatal flex but ok romeo
I'm seriously thinking of sending this to my English Literature teacher pic.twitter.com/rBQddosbz9
— Samira (@gocurseyourself) September 19, 2019
3. book retail isn’t nearly as weird as you want it to be
Customers sometimes come up to the counter and say “I have a weird question” and it’s always something like “can you order the hardcover for me even though the paperback is out?”
Just once I’d like someone to be like “birds can’t read but do you think they should be able to?”
— book culture (@bookculture) September 19, 2019
2. Orange is the new black panther
Le cat burglar: Emergency workers caught an unusual prowler lurking around rooftops in France – a black panther. https://t.co/NPg8RxHYtx #odd
— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) September 19, 2019
1. retweet for family
Be there or be square. https://t.co/TwZL9cW16K
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 19, 2019
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