THE DOORS ARE OPEN (Imaginarily): Book Club Begins With a Sapphic Regency Romance That Has Dinosaurs In It

Okay. The sign is flipped. The (imaginary) doors are open. The reading window for book one is officially, as of today, go. If you missed the whole pitch: a couple weeks ago I started a book club for a bookstore that doesn’t exist yet — The Magpie’s Library, the queer-centered cozy bookmobile that currently lives in a folder on my computer. The shop isn’t real. The books are extremely real. So we’re reading them together, one a month, for about two years, and building the audience before the van ever turns a wheel. No signup. No app. No quizzes. You read along, you talk about it, or you lurk in the back like a beloved gremlin. All valid. Here’s what we’re starting with. Book One: Damsels and Dinosaurs by Wren Jones It is a sapphic regency romance with dinosaurs. That is the actual logline, and I want you to sit with how good that is. The Fletcher family honey business is going under. Poppy Fletcher gets shipped off to a tropical island to retrieve her eccentric aunt — and because one…