Want to donate to Portland Books to Prisoners to get your discount on tattoo/retail???
Here’s the Portland Books to Prisoners wish list!!
-SOFT-COVER books preferred (since prisoners will clearly turn hardcover books into dangerous weapons)
-Mysteries, Western novels, fiction, history, books by African-American and Latino authors
-Wide, clear packing tape
-Pens
-Rolls of plain brown paper
-Cash for mailing costs
You get $10 off a tattoo session or $5 off a retail purchase with a donation for Books to Prisoners. Note: you can’t combine $10 off tattoo with 10% off a literary tattoo, but you CAN get $5 off a retail purchase in addition to your 10% off literary tattoo discount!
Hooray!! It’s November, which means that all month we’ll be celebrating our love of books AND raising money for some great organizations!!
-get 10% off literary-themed tattoo appointments in the month of November, and Icon will be donating 50% of profits from those tattoos to Write Around Portland and Fishtrap!
-On TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, come to our Literary Flash Day! We are so, so, so excited about this. In case you don’t know, most of us are pretty big book nerds, and we are sooooo stoked about drawing up flash for this!!! 100% of profits from the day go to WRAP and Fishtrap!
-Bring in a donation for Portland Books to Prisoners and get $10 off a tattoo appointment or $5 off a retail purchase (no you can’t combine this with the 10% off literary tattoo discount, you swindlers, but you CAN get both 10% off a literary tattoo AND $5 off a retail purchase!!!). Portland Books to Prisoners needs books—fiction, westerns, dictionaries, books by African-American or Latino authors, clear mailing tape, brown paper for wrapping books, and cold hard cash.
Love is Not Constantly Wondering if You’re Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life.
By Anonymous
This book is so amazing. Recently I sat down and read the whole thing in about two hours. It’s a sit down and devour it kind of book. It’s so, so good. Creative, funny, unusual, touching, nostalgic, and gut-wrenching. So sad and insightful and self-reflective. It’s comprised of dated vignettes over the course of a four-year relationship that’s akin to a drawn-out train wreck. The form, which hearkens to Choose Your Own Adventure Novels (god, I loved those things), keeps this book from being maudlin or self-pitying. The author’s pointed, ascerbic humor keeps you from knowing if you want to laugh or cry. The book only costs $7 and is amazing; I totally recommend picking up a copy, especially because we only have a couple left…
