Hipsy's View: Blogs from my Bookstore

If you have read my blogs recently (as of last year), you know that when I am not working my regular job, I work at a bookstore. While though I am one of the toys/miscellaneous buyers, my passion still resolves around books, history, and mythology. Beginning last year, I was asked by the events manager if I could write a few blogs once in a while to post on the store's website. Now, I'm not the only one that writes for the blog, of course -- this is a state-chain store with six locations -- but if you would like to know why I do not post as much here as I would like to (jobs and distracting hobbies are time-consuming, as we all know), I have created a list below of all of the blogs I have written for my store, with links attached them to take you straight to the pages.

Oh, and if you get the chance and you want to explore the store's blog, check out some of the bloggers' posts. With the bookstore also being an entertainment trade store, we blog about everything to do with entertainment, be it books, movies, video games, local events, you name it! For now, thank you for being supportive readers and I hope you will enjoy these following blogs.

Note: Though I may have written these blogs, they were altered and edited by my event manager and the store's social media manager, to fit properly with the website. I still have my original copies, and if you would like me to post those, please let me know so I can check with my events manager (since I report to him) before posting them. Thank you for reading!

Hipsy's Blog from the Bookstore

• Bookman’s Recommends: Valentine’s Day Movies! (February 2019)
• Bookmans Recommends: Top Ten Irish Folktales (March 2019)
• Fun Facts: Ēostre and Easter (April 2019)
• What Bookmans Geeks Geek Out On (May 2019)
• Take A Journey Through Reading (June 2019)
• Read With Pride for Pride Month! (June 2019)
• Mermaids Throughout the World (July 2019)
• Stress Busters for Back to School (August 2019)
• Banned: 5 Must-Reads (September 2019)
• A History of the Storyteller (November 2019)
• Resolutions: Do More You (January 2020)
• Pandemic: Books Recs for a Quarantine (June 2020)

You'll notice some months where there were no blogs. Those are months where I could not write due to my schedule with my other job, and then, of course, the COVID-19 quarantine months; at this time the store was closed for almost two months, and the social media pages were not posting anything but updates. I did have one written for February (Valentine's Day themed), but with many other great blogs being posted and the pandemic scare, it sadly did not get posted. I will check in with my manager, and if it is okay with him, i will post that blog here. Stay healthy and safe for now.

Full-Time Life Overload: Update Blog

What a year so far, am I right?

So, if you are still following this blog, I appreciate you. I have not kept up on this blog like I intended to. Since a year ago (literally!), my plate has been constantly full. I have been working from home, which has it's good and bad side effects. Good because it has health and safety in mind, bad because of my distractions. Still being a new instructor at the school I'm working with, I have coursework that I need to finish in order to help our students. But with all the extra time on my hands, my ADD has been playing the devil's advocate with me. First I'm reading leisurely, then I'm reading for work, then I'm sewing, then I'm writing, then I'm writing for my other job (yes, I'm still working a second job at a bookstore, but it has been closed for 2 1/2 months), then I'm back to sewing and thinking about my novels-in-progress....you get the point!

Now with one job ending (just for the summer break) and another reopening, it's surprising I'm even taking some time to write this. Before all this COVID-fiasco, I was planning on writing a few tie-in blogs for a blog I wrote for my bookstore, which sadly did not get a chance to be published due to current events. So I thought I could post them on here. But even though I have been working from home, I mention once again, my ADD has been on full blast, keeping me busy with other ideas and projects when I'm not scheduled to talk with students or doing my own coursework. Now many months have gone by and not one blog up on this site! But I hope to change that soon.

If you do enjoy my blogs, I thank you again for sticking around. I will put up another blog soon with the most recent blog links from my bookstore (I have posted some before); I just sent one off recently and hope to see it on the website soon. Once it is, I will put a link for it up on this blog, as well as my Facebook page (which btw, I have a Facebook page too, Hipsy's Review). 

Until then, please stay safe and healthy as we reenter the working world that's not behind a computer screen or in our bedrooms. And remember, I'm always open for suggestions on any book or movie reviews from all of you, and though I haven't worked on it in a while, I would still like to add more "Which is Better" blogs. So feel free to leave me a comment or email hispysreview@gmail.com.