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Update: May 25, 2020—Governor Newsom has just announced that in-store retail shopping may resume statewide—but that reopening is subject to approval from county health departments. Currently, the County of Santa Cruz has not lifted those restrictions. In addition, in order to maintain the highest levels of safety for our employees and our customers, Bookshop will not resume in-store shopping until we feel like we have put into place all of the steps to make Bookshop as safe as we can be. Don't worry—you'll be the first to know when our doors reopen!

Although this week marks the beginning of the holiday season, it also means that it is nearing the end of another year of bookselling. 2018 surpassed our expectations in terms of engagement and excitement about books. Here are some of the best things that happened at Bookshop this year:

Dear Readers,

I am a book voyeur. I often think about those silly movies where someone (usually of the opposite sex) can hear the thoughts of others and it gives them a (so-called) profound sense of human nature. Funny enough, I don’t have much interest in hearing the inner thoughts of my husband, but I do have daydreams about hearing the inner thoughts of book buyers as they make their selections. Why did they pick that book vs. the other one? What was it on the back cover that grabbed someone’s attention? What moved that book group to make that selection?