 Would your book club like to obtain discounts on books? Would you all like to have an opportunity to promote your club and highlight the books you all read? Then consider partnering with us at Birdwhistell Books!
Since opening our store I have been amazed by how many book clubs there are across our community! We love it, and want to encourage people to read, discuss, and share stories! If your book club partners with Birdwhistell Books, we will offer:
Email us at [email protected] if your club is interested in partnering with us. We can't wait to hear about what you've been reading!
"By the excellence of his work the workman is a neighbor. By selling only what he would not despise to own, the salesman is a neighbor. By selling what is good his character survives the market." - Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer "To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart." - The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment
"Come all ye conservatives and liberals
who want to conserve the good things and be free, come away from the merchants of big answers, whose hands are metalled with power; from the union of anywhere and everywhere by the purchase of everything from everybody at the lowest price and the sale of anything to anybody at the highest price; from the union of work and debt, work and despair; from the wage-slavery of the helplessly well-employed. From the union of self-gratification and self-annihilation, secede into care for one another and for the good gifts of Heaven and Earth." - The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union
Here is the list that we will update every month throughout the year. The good thing about this challenge is that once the book is finished, it goes right onto our shelves ready for the next reader! I hope you create your own list to share with us so we can see what we should read next! General / Literary Fiction: 2/10
Si-Fi / Fantasy: _/5 Kentucky: 2/5
Poetry & Plays: _/3 Classics: 1/3 Memoir & Biography: _/3 Religion & Philosophy: _/3 History: _/3 Society & Culture: 1/3
Arts, Culture, and Sports: _/3 We opened a bookstore!
Every year I write a post trying to take stock of what we've accomplished and share some of our ideas for the coming year. Some of them will pan out and some of them will not. Just know that with your all's support, we plan to be apart of this community for a long time, driven by the same principles we laid out in our inaugural post Why Birdwhistell Books?: [W]e believe finding discarded books and ideas and bringing them back to our community is a good in and of itself...spending our days searching for, reading, and passing on discarded books seems like a good way to spend a life. That's still our ethos, and will remain so as long as we're around. So once again, thank you for supporting our store, and now let's see what happened in 2025 and where we're headed in 2026! The best laid plans of 2025...
...become the goals of 2026!
Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram (Kelsey does an excellent job posting regular store updates), and come back here for reviews and highlights (I'm going to do my best to update the website more regularly...last year I made it all the way through January!). Thank you for being a part of the Birdwhistell Books community, and we're looking forward to another great year of reading!
"Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. Nothing but death [and] eternity...what they call the communion of the saints. The saints, these are the true men, the younger brothers of the Savior. We are with them all our lives long in every good deed, in every brave thought, in every love...It is there we belong. There is our home. It is that which our heart strives for...Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness."
 This year we're doing a 52 book challenge! We hope you follow along, and join us by taking the challenge yourself. You can borrow from our list or create your own!
When we first opened the bookstore, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was a little nervous answering questions and holding conversations about books from unfamiliar genres. We all have the books that speak to us, and others that feel like foreign languages. There's nothing wrong with that! Over the past few months though, I made it a goal to broaden my reading horizons, and I want to continue that resolution into the next year! Therefore, I'm challenging myself to read 52 books in 2026 (I'm counting books read in December of this year....it's not cheating...okay, maybe it is a little, but we all have lives so get off my back!). To spice up the challenge even more, we'll pull books from all the different genres Birdwhistell Books has to offer. Here is the list that we will update every month throughout the year. The good thing about this challenge is that once the book is finished, it goes right onto our shelves ready for the next reader! I hope you create your own list to share with us so we can see what we should read next! General / Literary Fiction: 1/10
Si-Fi / Fantasy: _/5 Kentucky: 1/5
Poetry & Plays: _/3 Classics: _/3 Memoir & Biography: _/3 Religion & Philosophy: _/3 History: _/3 Society & Culture: _/3 Science & Nature: _/3 Arts, Culture, and Sports: _/3
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