"I don't want it running to the pigs..." - Anna

"Why are there pictures in a book? People are strange enough without evidence for it!" - Anna

The cats love the new place - it's bigger, so Logan can get going really fast before failing adorably to make the tight turn from the History aisle into the Science room, and it has better windows, which means Nierme can bask in lots of places.

"WE HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO SNARK!" - Anna

"Humans! Humans are running away!" - Nialle

"The power of silliness can do... stuff." - Ali

"She's wearing... like... squirrels!" - Leiden, RE: an Edgar Rice Burroughs book cover painting

"It's a vortex of improbability." - Nialle, RE: the bookshop

"Did you just compare high intellecutalism to a Twinkie??" - Ali to Nialle

"This is not reality, it's a bookstore." - Nialle

In honor of our late investor, business advisor, proud promoter, and beloved grandfather, William Weldon Woods (d. 22 April 2009), and his father, Weldon William Woods (d. 16 Jan, 1991), mentor and friend, we will be naming the room containing antiquarian and rare books and books about Iowa "Weldon's Room." Both men farmed at Maple Knoll in Cedar County, Iowa, which has been in the family for over 150 years, and both encouraged Nialle in her education; Bill Woods was enormously supportive of Nialle's purchase and management of the Haunted Bookshop, and we guess he understood that while Nialle is inept at growing even cherry tomatoes, the seeds of curiosity and literacy, well tended, can fruit as bountifully as a field of good Iowan earth.

We just went on a huge buying binge. Come see all our wonderful new toys!