Whether the flowers and trees are in full bloom in your neck of the woods or your home is still buried beneath a layer of ice and snow, new books make the perfect springtime accessories! In honor of the bountiful season—and Bas Bleu’s Spring 2018 edition, packed with terrific new books and gifts—we’ve picked a dozen fresh reads, a bouquet of books just for you. Continue reading
Spring sprang early in our neck of the woods, and we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a fresh crop of new books! We think they’re perfectly suited to enjoying outside, surrounded by cheerful daffodils, emerald-green grass, and singing birds. If you’re among Bas Bleu’s readers struggling to dig out from beneath a foot of fresh snow, we hope the books and gifts in our Spring edition (due in mailboxes today) will lift your spirits and tide you over until the new season finally blooms. Continue reading
Finally spring has sprung (at least in our neck of the woods), and with the daffodils and warm breezes come sun-drenched afternoons and longer days during which to read, read, read! But don’t panic if your To Be Read (TBR) list has dwindled over the course of a hard winter. Bas Bleu’s Spring 2016 edition is on its way to your door, and it’s blooming with plenty of fresh new books to brighten your season! Continue reading
It’s been a tough winter. More than one hundred inches of snow in Boston. Record cold temperatures in Cleveland. Torrential rains in California. Grim gray skies here in Atlanta. We’re sick of it, and so we say groundhogs be damned! Bas Bleu is officially proclaiming the arrival of spring! Continue reading
This week, our Spring 2014 catalog lands in mailboxes around the country, signifying—we hope!—the end of a long, hard winter and the beginning of those sunny, fragrant days that beckon us outside with a good book. And in addition to introducing you to more than one hundred new books and bookish gifts, our Spring issue celebrates something extra special: Bas Bleu’s 20th anniversary! Continue reading
We’re making a break for it.
We’ve got stacks of books to read for our Summer issue, the Southern sunshine is beckoning us outside into the long-awaited spring, and the plumbers downstairs are making one helluva racket. (Plus our boss is out of town; you won’t tell on us, right?) But just because we’re itching to play hooky doesn’t mean we’re going to leave you high and dry. This week in the Bluestocking Salon we’ve collected several news items from the reading world, teasers for what’s headed your way in the coming weeks, and some advice on spring cleaning those bookshelves.
Just a few of the books under consideration for our Summer catalog. (You should see our office shelves!)