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Michelle Martin's avatar

It’s so good, right? ☺️

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Alexandra Kelebay's avatar

BookStacks 🥹 I love this! And I love your recommendations—I’ve found so many wonderful new bookish friends through you. It’s been so wonderful spending more time here (and much less on IG) 🥰

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Yes! I want everyone to make the jump but also sorta want to keep our little book bubble intimate 😂

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Katy O.'s avatar

A new-to-me newsletter that isn't really new to many people is A Strong Sense of Place! I love their place-themed book recommendations and community building so much.

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Oh wow, I love the idea of this!

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Katy O.'s avatar

I'm in love with their podcast too!

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Gayla Gray's avatar

SSoP is just the best podcast and their newsletter has so many fun things in it and rabbit holes to travel down. :)

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Kolina Cicero's avatar

Michelle! Thank you so much, it's a huge honor. I also hadn't yet come across Calia's BookStack, so I followed asap!

I appreciate you!

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Michelle Martin's avatar

You're welcome, I'm happy to spread the bookish love ◡̈

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Tara Bañuelos's avatar

Thank you so much for including me here !

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Sara H's avatar

So deserved! Your stack is delightful :)

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Tara, you're welcome! I've loved getting to read your bookish thoughts.

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Calia Booth's avatar

I love this! Thanks for including me ❤️

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Michelle Martin's avatar

You're welcome, Calia! I adore your posts so much.

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Calia Booth's avatar

Working on a new one as we speak! So flattered again, thank you.

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Sara H's avatar

Thank you for introducing me to these. I am a Lowbrow Highbrow superfan but the other ones weren't on my radar!

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Yay! Happy reading ◡̈

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Petya K. Grady's avatar

Oh Michelle, this means so much to me, coming from YOU.

I personally feel that Substack was MADE for book people and of all my years reading and writing on the internet, I feel like THIS is the place that fits US the best.

I am so flattered and excited to be mentioned here by one my favorite Bookstackers, among some of my favorites and alongside exciting new (for me) publications!!! THANK YOU!

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Natalie McGlocklin's avatar

The irony is not lost on me that I just discovered Tara Bañuelos' Substack because of this list and read the linked post which wonders if there is room for more bookish content on Substack and the resounding answer is YES. There is room for everyone and it certainly makes *my* bookish life that much better. Love this list 🖤

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Yes! Community over competition always ◡̈

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Eve Matheson's avatar

Oh hooray!!!!

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Tara Penry's avatar

Thank you for all these suggestions. Some are new to me. I was going to call out Abra McAndrews' Book Stack Directory, but I think you referenced that in another post.

If any of your readers are Alice Munro fans, my Quiet Reading letter just finished a few weeks' of tribute to the late short story writer. About fifteen or sixteen people posted moving and thoughtful tributes to her last week that are collected here: https://tarapenry.substack.com/p/alice-munro-virtual-memorial. At the moment, my home page looks like a Munro memorial too: https://tarapenry.substack.com/. Sorry if the call for the memorial missed anyone who would have liked to participate! I can still add posts from fellow book-lovers to the web page.

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Michelle Martin's avatar

Thanks for sharing, Tara!

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gabby's avatar

Such great recommendations!

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Lark Vandenberghe's avatar

Oooo thanks for sharing, what an absolutely lovely list. So excited to dive into all of these!

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Lark Vandenberghe's avatar

Also can I ask how you shared everyone's substacks and your previous posts like that?? It looks so beautiful and crisp!

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Michelle Martin's avatar

I just copy and paste the link to their (or my) posts when I’m creating my post and you have a few options of how it displays that you can toggle through!

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Lark Vandenberghe's avatar

Oh wow - I've always just linked it to words - never knew that was an option. Thank you!

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Abigail Cerquitella's avatar

these look amazing, excited to dive in! i've been working on my own bookish newsletter and having a blast coming up with themes and sharing these titles hoping they'll find the right person.

https://therollingladder.substack.com/

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Angela Tyler's avatar

I love seeing Madeline’s page on here! I’ve followed a few of these as well—they’re all so unique!

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Angela Tyler's avatar

So cool seeing @Madeline Mills on here!!

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