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Garrett Pinder @gcpinder

Island boy living in New England Librarian | Bookseller | Luckier half of a pair Owner of Pinder’s Pages 🌈📚🌺

Blue skies, warm skin, love 💙 @ctpeter1

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POV: your nerdy husband just got back from the bookstore with his latest haul 🤑

The Cockerel and the Cottage 🐓💖🏡 Harbour Island, Bahamas

Retro charm, pastel paradise — Miami never misses ☀️🏖️

Bookseller love is a forever love 💝

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And now comes my favorite part: the loading of the fork. It’s fascinating, the percentages you use of different vegetables, — to create that one harmoniously-balanced, perfect bite. 🍴✨

Scrabble, anyone? ✨ @ctpeter1

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green is a must-read for true crime fans. Meticulously researched, it captures the hunt for a serial killer while exploring the haunting reality of being gay in 1990s NYC. Gripping, chilling, and deeply important.

Set in 1901, Grey Dog follows schoolteacher Ada Byrd as she tries to escape her past—only to find herself drawn into something far older and more powerful. Isolation, transformation, and the wild pull of nature... this one is something special. Who else loves an unsettling book? 👹

📖 ”I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about." A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood

📖💭Like Cyrus, existing between worlds, the push and pull feels deeply familiar to me. “Martyr!” is a story of grief, identity, and the impossible weight of history—written with the kind of fire that lingers long after the last page. Kaveh Akbar delivers something electric here in this debut novel.

💿 Nostalgic view of LGBTQ+ representation in the aughts. 🩸Queer retelling of one of my favorite fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty. 👹Creepy backwoods moonshine-making monster-loving family. ✨Queer romantic historical fantasy w/ lovely steamy bits. 🚀Gay action-packed pew-pew scifi ends with a bang!

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Mornings in Rainbow Bay, Eleuthera ✨

And now I'm stuck in this hotel room by a cold neon light, And I've been waiting for an answer, but it won't come tonight

Bed2, A Mini Beau Book: Number 6, Luke Austin, 2015-2016

“Shy” Luke Austin, archival inkjet print, 2016

“That’s why this moment is so dear, I kiss your lips and we are here. So let’s hold tight and touch and feel, for this quick instant, we are real.” -Duane Michals, gelatin silver print, 1986

Where the sky paints stories and the breeze whispers “stay”✨

Nothing hits quite like a beef patty from the petrol station on the road ⛽️🔥

I remember that time you told me You said, "Love is touching souls" Surely you touched mine 'Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time

A young woman joins an eco-commune in the Bahamas, chasing purpose and hope. As a Bahamian with ties to the Eleutheran Adventurers, I was intrigued but skeptical. Hyde’s lush writing, sapphic love story, and themes of freedom won me over. Loved this book—and of course, had to snap the photo op!

Did someone say book rec? 📚

Stew fish & grits

These windows definitely -open up- to some bold choices!👀🔥 Keeping it playful, cheeky, and just the right amount of... suggestive.😉 you go, San Juan!

“Between Islands” by Rhys Knowles, debut short story collection, published by Poinciana Paper Press, 2025