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Jennifer Billock's avatar

Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you and your bossy cheese enjoyed the reading! (Although maybe the cheese didn't like it as much, haha.)

Julie Falatko's avatar

I for sure also worried that it was trying to tell me not to eat it.

Elayne Crain's avatar

I sort my picture books by spine color and now it's natural--but it does take a second to get used to it, initially! 😂 It's so fun to hear what others use. There's a bookstore here in Seattle where they are organized by mood. So the kids and adults and whatever are all mixed together, and the shelved by certain emotions. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattles-newest-bookstore-oh-hello-again-has-a-novel-system-categorizing-books-by-emotions/

I am delighted that you had a cheese reading (had NO idea that was a thing)...and in that same vein, LOL, Point Reyes is one of my three favorite bleu cheeses! (I love cheese so much, I have attended an American Cheese Society annual conference. Not as a producer--just an enthusiast. 😂) I also love Rogue River Blue and Rogue Bluehorn.

Wow, if your social media feeds DO remind you of those awful parents who clap for another kid's human error...then I don't blame you for skedaddling. I would, too! Maybe once I'm published and am out of my "only other kidlit creators" cocoon, I'll feel the same!

Thank you for the opportunity to shop vicariously through the charming photos--love butterfly pea tea for its color (blue), and my first thought on the bookshelf one was, "oooh, I would like very much to pat that octopus toy" so I was delighted to hear that detail.

Finally, I read the word "nog" in your cheese! Though I personally do not think eggnog goes with blue cheese. (Maybe the cheese was trying to save itself. 'Go have some nog, instead, Julie.') Nice try, Point Reyes.

Julie Falatko's avatar

Wow, "eggnog and bleu cheese" is a whole mood right there. I love love love the idea of organizing the books by mood for browsing! (Also though I would have no idea where to look for my own books if I was going to sign them. But still. It's not about me. Apparently.)

I also love that you went to a cheese conference as an enthusiast. I relate to that so much.

Jennifer Billock's avatar

Also, I definitely had to look and see what the spine colors of my books are too!

Julie Falatko's avatar

Oh good, it's not just me. Like, I know what the colors are, but also I have no idea.

Jennifer Billock's avatar

Same! Like... blue and black and.... maybe tan??

Julie Falatko's avatar

Standing in the bookstore all I had was, "Greenish, maybe?"