Erin’s Picks
The Holiday Books I’m Most Excited About for 2026
There’s something about holiday reading that makes me want to abandon my regular TBR pile and disappear into a good Christmas story. Give me a snowy setting, a...
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Shelf Talk
#Shelf Talk: A Book Review of the Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman
The Witches of Cambridge: A Premise I Loved, a Story That Didn’t Quite Hold Me 🩷🩷🩷 (3 Hearts) Why I Picked It Up I went into The Witches...
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October Is for Cozy Reads and Pop-Ups
October is here, and I’m taking Erin’s Bookshelf to six events around Charlotte and Mount Holly. There are fall festivals, evening markets, and two book fairs on the...
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The Reading Life
On the Rocks & Between the Pages
My favorite way to spend an evening is with a good book and a really good cocktail. And there’s nothing I love more than a theme that helps...
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The Reading Life
The Gilmore Girls Reading List and Why We Still Read Like Rory
Some television characters leave us wanting their wardrobes. Rory Gilmore leaves us with a reading list long enough to rearrange a bookshelf. In Gilmore Girls, books shape conversations,...
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Erin’s Picks
Short Book Club Books Under 300 Pages
I appreciate a short book that leaves room for a full conversation. Between work, family, and building Erin’s Bookshelf, I understand why a reading group might want a...
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The Reading Life
Why I Keep Making Time to Read, Even in the Busiest Seasons
One of my favorite parts of the day is opening my book at night. Whatever else has filled the hours, I get to return to a story I’m...
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The Reading Life
Charlotte Book Clubs: Find Your Reading People
One of my favorite things about talking books at a pop-up is watching a conversation take off. Someone mentions a favorite novel, another person has a completely different...
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The Reading Life
Netflix Book Adaptations for Your Reading and Watch Lists
Sometimes the best way to choose what to watch is to begin at the bookshelf. A book gives you one version of a story, and an adaptation gives...
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The Reading Life
Giunti Odeon in Florence: When Adaptive Reuse Becomes a Cultural Experience
I visit bookstores because I love books, but Giunti Odeon in Florence reached another part of me entirely: the part that believes old buildings can carry their history...
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Shelf Talk
#ShelfTalk: I Never Heard of a Tradwife. Then I Read Yesteryear
🩷🩷🩷🩷 (4 Hearts) Everyone has an opinion about the summer’s most talked-about novel. Here’s mine. The Conversation in a Nutshell Here is the quick version of the public...
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Fresh From the Bookshelf
New Fiction for Every Kind of Reader
One of my favorite parts of owning a bookstore is choosing the books that make it onto the shelf. I do not want Erin's Bookshelf to feel like...
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