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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

4 days ago

@saltnsafewords's March 2026 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 32 PAGES - 8,365 AV. RATING - 4.02 Highest Rated Reads RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND - 5.0 AFTER HOURS AT DOORYARD BOOKS - 4.75 THE GIFT IS IN THE MAKING: ANISHINAABEG STORIES - 4.75 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 264 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (72%) vs Non-Fiction (28%) Digital format (72%) vs Audio format (28%) Genres - LGBTQIA+: 15 Romance:7 Fantasy: 6 Poetry: 6 Literary:4

Collage of all 32 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's March 2026 Reads via Storygraph YELLOWFACE, THE ODYSSEY, LADY LIKE, ALANNA:THE FIRST ADVENTURE (GRAPHIC NOVEL), XENOCULTIVARS, THE GIFT IS IN THE MAKING: ANISHINAABEG STORIES, LUCK IN THE SHADOWS, CLAIMINGS, TAILS AND OTHER ALIEN ARTIFACTS; THE WOODS ALL BLACK, EN AGOSTO NOS VEMOS, READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART, THE MARKETPLACE, A LITTLE SIN, AND SHALL MACHINES SURRENDER, CLEANNESS, TREVOR TAKES CARE, LETTERS FROM A STOIC, THE SLAVE, THE UNIVERSE IN VERSE, NOOPIMING, A MAHJONG HANDBOOK, WATER, PET, SWAN, RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND, BLUE IRIS, THE HEART SUTRA, NIMONA, SHIVER, HEGEL: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION, AFTER HOURS AT DOORYARD BOOKS, MATERNIDADES CUIR

Read 2x the amount of books in March vs February 👀 - 32 books (1 5⭐) and 0 DNFs + 51 fics on AO3. Trying to occupy any excess brain space in the face of the horrors that persist, I guess. Did have a lot of nostalgic rereads. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

1 month ago

@saltnsafewords's February 2026 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 16 PAGES - 5,987 AV. RATING - 4.13 Highest Rated Reads THE REBEL - 5.0 CRY, VOIDBRINGER - 4.75 I HOPE YOU REMEMBER - 4.5 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 356 pages Average time to finish: 4 days Fiction (75%) vs Non-Fiction (25%) Digital format (69%) vs Audio format (31%) Genres - Romance: 9 LGBTQIA+: 9 Contemporary: 5 Sports: 5 Fantasy: 3

Collage of all 16 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's February 2026 Reads via Storygraph BLOOM TOWN: GENESIS, HEATED RIVALRY, BLOOM TOWN: EXODUS, CRY VOIDBRINGER, TOUGH GUY, PICKING UP, COMMON GOAL, ROLE MODEL, THE REBEL, THE LONG GAME, THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE, POETRY AS SPELLCASTING, WHAT FURY BRINGS, AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, NIGHTS OF SILK AND SAPPHIRE, I HOPE YOU REMEMBER

Binderary/February was solid - 16 books (1 5⭐) and 2 DNFs + 63 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

2 months ago

@saltnsafewords's January 2026 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 21 PAGES - 6,413 AV. RATING - 3.99 Highest Rated Reads IN MEMORIAM - 5.0 POLYWISE - 5.0 SOLO CLEMENCIA - 5.0 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 301 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (71%) vs Non-Fiction (29%) Digital format (67%) vs Audio format (33%) Genres - LGBTQIA+: 10 Fantasy: 7 Romance: 6 Contemporary: 4 Literary: 4

Collage of all 21 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's January 2026 Reads via Storygraph The Summer Palace, The Wizard Hunters, Mistakes Were Made, The Safekeep, Slave to Sensation, Lab 257, The Revolt Against Humanity, Shame, The Incandescent, Boulder, Hunchback, Project Hail Mary, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, The Strength of the Few, Solo Clemencia, Outdrawn, Don't Sleep with the Dead, The Halfling's Harvest, Game Changer, Polywise, In Memoriam

Great start to the year - Three 5⭐s in January! 21 books (+1 DNF) + 29 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

@koryukun.bsky.social

2 months ago

Statistiques from the website booktower

Start 2026 the best way ever: read #fanfictions 😁

Here are my stats on Book Tower...

(Over 1,300 000 words in 2025 🤭)

...Still 16 days left... I'm sure I can do better than that this month!

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#fanfiction #BookTower #fandom #CanTStopReading #AO3 #archiveofourown

Abby Sandoitchi

@abbysandwich.bsky.social

3 months ago

☕ One thousand moments Stacked like a tall sandwich tower Still hungry for more.

#AbbySandwich #Amalgamation #CreativeMinds #1000Posts #VastTransitions #Sandoitchi
#StudioChaos #BookTower
#CoffeeAndCanvas
#DontEatTheArt
#BalancingAct

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

3 months ago

2026 Reading Goals ▪️ Read a little less 👀 - target of 156 books. ▪️DNF at 30% if I don't feel strongly about/love it. ▪️Read/listen to at least 1 book per month in a language other than English. ▪️Read/listen to at least 1 Nostalgic reread per month. 2026 Bookbinding Goals ▪️24 binds - with 1-2 maxing out on technicals. ▪️24 typesets - with 1-2 maxing out on technicals. ▪️Improve paper marbling skills. ▪️Learn 2-3 new to me casing/construction techniques. ▪️Try making some paste papers. ▪️ Try making some handmade endbands. ▪️Work with real leather for casing at least 1x. ▪️(Stretch goal) Compile tutorial/guide on bookbinding accessibility hacks.

2026 Reading/Bookbinding Goals

#booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower #readinggoals #bookbinding #fanbinding #papermarbling

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

3 months ago

2025 Reading Year End Review Many thanks to Storygraph and Booktower - infinitely easier than tracking on gsheets ❤️ and I'm always grateful for Libby and my various libraries - having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card! ▪️Goal set was 104 books - passed goal - 220%. 🥳 Read 229 books/audiobooks total. Actually read 2 physical print books! Really got into audiobooks this year - 73 of 229. ▪️No book DNFs (had gotten into the 3rd quarter before finding a true DNF worthy, but by then I had established a Pattern 🙄). ▪️ Generally a very enjoyable reading year - average rating 3.94. 18 5⭐ books. ▪️ 190 different authors. Frequent flyers were Mary Oliver, Martha Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal. ▪️ Most of reading material from Libby, bought 5 books, and a few from Prime Reading/similar. ▪️ 693 fics read (12,644,477 words total 👀) - not including my rotation of god-tier bedtime story rereads. Read in ~30 fandoms - 323 different authors.

BookTower screenshot - 693 fics read, 12,644,477 words total.

Storygraph screencap of all 229 books, in approximately first to last reading order. Titles not particularly legible, but scrolling back on my feed - all titles are listed in alt text, month by month.

2025 Reading Year End Review

Many thanks to Storygraph and Booktower - infinitely easier than tracking on gsheets ❤️ and I'm always grateful for Libby and my various libraries - having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!

#booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower #readinggoals #readingwrapup

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

3 months ago

@saltnsafewords's December 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 22 PAGES - 5,957 HOURS - 1.03 AV. RATING - 3.9 Highest Rated Reads MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME - 4.75 KINGS RISING - 4.5 LEGENDS & LATTES - 4.5 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 278 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (82%) vs Non-Fiction (18%) Digital format (77%) vs Audio format (18%) vs Print format (5%) Genres - LGBTQIA+: 12 Fantasy: 8 Science Fiction: 7 Romance: 6 Short Stories: 3

Collage of all 22 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's December 2025 Reads via Storygraph In the Moon’s House, Captive Prince, Dread Nation, Morning Star, Smart Brevity, The Biology of Human Survival, To Be Taught if Fortunate, Love, Volatile Memory, Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Isle in the Silver Sea, Legends & Lattes, Pages to Fill, Graceling, My Government Means to Kill Me, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, Prince’s Gambit, You Weren’t Meant to Be Human, Kings Rising, The Third Stage of Life, Slow Cooked Feelings

2025 - and December is a wrap - 22 books + 49 fics on AO3. Happy New Year y'all 🥳 #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

A Painted Potato

@apaintedpotato.bsky.social

3 months ago

Merry Christmas fellow fanfiction readers!!! I was having too much fun color coding fanfiction on #BookTower I forgot to draw for 2 months so take a Christmas Opal! (love the new update btw)
@booktowerofficial.bsky.social

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

3 months ago

@saltnsafewords's November 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 27 PAGES - 7,112 AV. RATING - 4.04 Highest Rated Reads THE RELENTLESS MOON - 5.0 NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO -5.0 THE SERVICEBERRY - 5.0 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 263 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (67%) vs Non-Fiction (33%) Digital format (63%) vs Audio format (34%) vs Print format (4%) Genres - Fantasy: 8 LGBTQIA+: 7 Science Fiction: 5 Horror: 5 Literary: 4

Collage of all 27 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's November 2025 Reads via Storygraph The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, The Serviceberry, Golden Son, Dying of Whiteness, Among the Burning Flowers, Tender is the Flesh, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Anxiety is Really Strange, Blood is Another Word for Hunger, The Everlasting, The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck, My Darling Dreadful Thing, The Relentless Moon, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, Articulated Restraint, What Moves the Dead, Wine Folly: Magnum Edition, A Wolf Steps in Blood, We Will Rest!, Poor Things, The Left Hand of Darknes, Tapping into Water: Low Tech Well Drilling, Comfort Me with Apples, Wuthering Heights, Boy Parts, The Martian Contingency

Late post is late, but three 5 ⭐s in November - 27 books + 51 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

Dusanima

@dusanima.bsky.social

5 months ago

Just another day at work. 😊 #Ghent #Gent #sunrise #boekentoren #booktower #ugent #universiteitgent #ubgent

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

5 months ago

@saltnsafewords's October 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 25 PAGES - 6,857 AV. RATING - 3.9 Highest Rated Reads BELLY OF THE BEAST - 4.5 RECLAIMED - 4.5 BAYARD RUSTIN - 4.25 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 272 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (60%) vs Non-Fiction (40%) Digital format (64%) vs Audio format (36%) Genres - LGBTQIA+: 9 Fantasy: 8 Romance: 4 Classics: 3 Short Stories: 2

Collage of all 25 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's October 2025 Reads via Storygraph The Summer War, Reclaimed, When the Body Says No, Katabasis, Creative Watercolor & Mixed Media, The Stranger, Red Rising, Station Eleven, The Marble Queen, A Canticle for Leibowitz, I'm Afraid of Men, Reforged, Lore of the Tides, We Should All Be Feminists, Common Bonds, The Goblin Emperor, The Slow Fix, Crossroads of Ravens, The Meditations, Eat that Frog!, The Famous Lady Lovers, The Art of Mindful Living, Bayard Rustin, All the Pained Stars, Belly of the Beast

Finally clued into tracking daily progress on Storygraph 👀 - 25 books + 81 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

6 months ago

@saltnsafewords's September 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 12 PAGES - 4,823 AV. RATING - 4.05 Highest Rated Reads ALCHEMISED - 5.0 THE COLOR PURPLE - 5.0 THE BURNING GOD - 4.25 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 402 pages Average time to finish: 6 days Fiction (58%) vs Non-Fiction (42%) Digital format (75%) vs Audio format (25%) Genres - Fantasy: 5 Historical: 4 LGBTQIA+: 3 Literary: 2 Feminism: 2

Collage of all 12 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's September 2025 Reads via Storygraph Upstream, The Color Purple, I Could Chew on This: and Other Poems by Dogs, The Dragon Republic, The Art of Conversation, Love in Exile, The Lightest Object in the Universe, A Marvelous Light, Alchemised, Your Art Will Save Your Life, The Magicians, The Burning God

It's finally Spooky Lake Month!! Two 5⭐s in September - 12 books + 58 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 ~ 𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔬 ⓐ𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔦ⓢ 💀☕

@andy-paciorek.bsky.social

6 months ago

#CurrentlyReading
Freaks by Jan Bondeson
#Books #BookTower

Booktower Team

@booktowerofficial.bsky.social

6 months ago

lol #booktower

𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 ~ 𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔬 ⓐ𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔦ⓢ 💀☕

@andy-paciorek.bsky.social

7 months ago

My shelves are heaving with books I haven't read yet but still the book devil on my shoulder whispers "You know what? You need to get a pile of Jan Bondeson books ..." 📚😈

#Booksky #Books #Booktower #Fortean

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

7 months ago

@saltnsafewords's August 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 20 PAGES - 5,412 AV. RATING - 4.09 Highest Rated Reads SYSTEM COLLAPSE - 5.0 NETWORK EFFECT- 5.0 LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY - 5.0 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 277 pages Average time to finish: 4 days Fiction (70%) vs Non-Fiction (30%) Digital format (60%) vs Audio format (40%) Genres - Science Fiction: 10 Literary: 3 Short Stories: 3 Poetry: 2 Fantasy: 2

Collage of all 20 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's August 2025 Reads via Storygraph Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivate Your Readers, The King's Weaver, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Lessons in Chemistry, Speak Easy: Connect with Every Conversation, Death of the Author, Compulsory, The Fated Sky, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory; Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy; Fugitive Telemetry, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself, The Haunting of Hill House, Network Effect, Lore of the Wilds, System Collapse, Algospeak, Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion

Made it past my yearly goal of 104 books this month 🥳 Three 5⭐s - 20 books + 95 fics (mostly ficlets) on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

8 months ago

@saltnsafewords's July 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 26 PAGES - 5,749 AV. RATING - 4.06 Highest Rated Reads MISFIT - 5.0 DOG SONGS - 5.0 HUMAN RITES - 4.5 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 226 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (60%) vs Non-Fiction (40%) Digital format (73%) vs Audio format (27%) Genres - LGBTQIA+: 9 Poetry: 5 Fantasy: 5 Science Fiction: 4 Romance: 3

Collage of all 26 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's July 2025 Reads via Storygraph Ascension (Jacqueline Koyanagi), Body Music, Travel Light, Finna, Dog Songs, All Systems Red, The One Who Loves You the Most, For the Love of April French, Las Biuty Queens, A Short Stay in Hell, The Future is Disabled, Ascension (S.T Gibson), Floriography, Artificial Condition, New and Selected Poems - Volume Two, The Joy of Actually Giving a Fuck, Baking Across America, Dream Work, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, The Barbaric Yawp, Devil of the Deep, Tuning In, Bookbinding - and the Care of Books, Human Rites, Felicity, Misfit

Two books titled Ascension (both solid) this past month! Mary Oliver kick still continues (cried over Dog Songs). Two 5⭐s - 26 books + 38 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

9 months ago

@saltnsafewords's June 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 15 PAGES - 3,440 AV. RATING - 4.07 Highest Rated Reads 1. Blood Over Bright Haven - 5.0 2. Model Home - 5.0 3. New and Selected Poems: Volume One - 4.5 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 230 pages Average time to finish: 3 days

@saltnsafewords's June 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph Misc Stats and Breakdowns Fiction (69%) vs Nonfiction (31%) Digital format (67%) vs Audio format (33%) Genre - LGBTQIA+: 4 Poetry: 4 Nature: 3 Fantasy: 3 Thriller: 2

Collage of all 15 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's June 2025 Reads via Storygraph Lost Horizon, Model Home, New and Selected Poems: Volume One, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing, Winter Hours, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, Milk and Honey, Spanish Novels: Ana - estudiante, Confessions of a Shy Baker: Volume 3, Confessions of a Shy Baker: Volume 4, The Shell Seekers, Why I Wake Early: New Poems, Mothers and Dogs, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Blood Over Bright Haven

Maybe slightly ran out of steam in June, but everything read was solid. The Mary Oliver kick continues - two 5⭐s - 15 books + 51 fics on AO3. #booksky #storygraph #AO3 #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

10 months ago

@saltnsafewords's May 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 20 PAGES - 4,508 AV. RATING - 3.94 Highest Rated Reads 1. Thirst: Poems - 4.75 2. At Blackwater Pond - 4.5 3. Blue Horses: Poems - 4.5 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 224 pages Average time to finish: 2 days Fiction (58%) vs Nonfiction (42%) Digital format (45%) vs Audio format (55%) Genre - Classics: 5 Poetry: 4 Essays: 3 Fantasy: 3 Young Adult: 3

Collage of all 20 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's May 2025 Reads via Storygraph The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition, Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, The Old Man and the Sea, The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel, The Unboxing of a Black Girl, This is Me Letting You Go, The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturistist Stories, The Writing Life: Ideas and Inspiration for Anyone Who Wants to Write, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage BBC Recordings of C.S. Lewis, The Poppy War, The Calculating Stars, The Beautiful Ones, The Little Prince, Blue Horses: Poems, The Stoic Mindset, The Art of War, At Blackwater Pond, Thirst: Poems, Player Piano

Suprised I got anything read at all in May, it was a hecc of a month 😮‍💨 - 20 books + 40 fics on AO3 in May. Big Mary Oliver kick this past month. #booksky #storygraph #booktower

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@saltnsafewords.bsky.social

11 months ago

@saltnsafewords's April 2025 Wrap-Up via Storygraph BOOKS READ - 16 PAGES - 3,599 AV. RATING - 3.97 Highest Rated Reads 1. Heavenly Tyrant - 5.0 2. This is How You Lose the Time War - 5.0 3. The Will of The Many - 5.0 4. (not pictured but also 5⭐) The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse - 5.0 Misc Stats and Breakdowns Average book length: 257 pages Average time to finish: 3 days Fiction (81%) vs Nonfiction (19%) Digital format (56%) vs Audio format (44%) Genre - Fantasy: 6 LGBTQIA+: 5 Literary: 3 Romance: 3 Science Fiction: 3

Collage of all 16 book covers, in approximately first to last reading order. @saltnsafewords's April 2025 Reads via Storygraph The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse; Crewel Intentions: Flirting with Fangs: A Hunger Pangs Short, Summary of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Will of the Many, The Bluest Eye, This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Pearl, The Red Threads of Fortune, MaddAddam, The Salt Grows Heavy, Binti, Cursebound, Do You Do It or Does It Do You?: How to Let the Universe Meditate You, The Trial, Heavenly Tyrant

Audiobooks and novellas continue to save the day - 16 books (but notably lower page count vs past months) + 66 fics on AO3 in April. But still had four 5⭐s. Not pictured but also a 5⭐ - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse. #booksky #storygraph #booktower

The Detroit News

@detroitnews.com

1 year ago

After helping redevelop Detroit's Book Tower, firm moves in Detroit — While Christman Company worked on the team that redeveloped the Book Tower, little did they know that they would eventually become a tenant in the historic downtown building. Having outgrown its previous office in the Fisher Building, the construction company made the move to a familiar space inside the historic Book Tower at 1265 Washington Blvd. "We really wanted to be downtown, wanted to be in the heart of the city," said Joe Luther, senior vice president and general manager for Christman's southeast Michigan operations. "(We) started looking for a place that we could either restore ourselves, originally thought we would purchase and restore something. As we continued to look and try to find the right piece, we said, 'Why not the Book Tower that we just finished for Bedrock?'" Christman moved into its new office space three weeks ago, now occupying 10,000 square feet on the second floor. Luther said the construction team practically lived on that floor during the years-long restoration. "Once we realized this was an opportunity for us, we looked no further really," said Mary LeFevre, regional vice president of business development for Christman's southeast Michigan operations. The new space is larger than the firm's previous office in the Fisher Building, which Christman constructed in 1927 and remains involved in its current renovation. The company's previous location on the 26th floor was 6,000 square feet, with about 4,000 square feet of usable office space. Christman continues to expand its footprint and its staff. Over the past decade, the company’s workforce in southeast Michigan has grown from 25 to 110 employees, Luther said. The Detroit office is the largest one for the 130-year-old, Lansing-based company, which has eight regional offices throughout the country. “What necessitated the move was we outgrew the space,” he said. “We had been there 10 years, and we've seen tremendous growth in the last 10 years. Part of the city's comeback. We've been proud to be a part of that. Projects like Michigan Central Station, Little Caesars headquarters, Wayne State school of business. And so as the city has really come back, we've been able to grow along with the city." The company’s expansion to a larger space comes as the office market vacancy rate in Metro Detroit in the fourth quarter of 2024 was 12.6%, a slight increase from the previous quarter, according to Colliers. Christman partnered with Detroit-based Brinker in a joint venture to restore the Book Tower over several years. Bedrock purchased the Italian Renaissance-style building in 2015 and enlisted a team for work that included restoring the original limestone and masonry façade, replacing more than 2,400 historically accurate windows and converting some of the office space into residential units. The building reopened in 2023. In addition to office space on the second and third floors, it houses restaurants, a hotel and residential space. During a recent tour of the second floor, Luther pointed out the fitness center and a flexible co-working space for tenants in the building called The Study. Royal Oak-based HED architects designed Christman's office space. The new tenant is still adding personal touches and awaiting artwork to adorn the walls. "It's a house," Luther said. "We're making it a home." On display in the hallway is the company’s copper cube, which recognizes its project teams in the region. Teams are honored quarterly, and Luther refers to it as the company’s equivalent of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup. About 25 people, including estimators, schedulers, quality control specialists and executive management, regularly occupy the office space. Others, who included project teams during the pre-construction phase, can make use of hoteling spots and huddle rooms. A light-filled kitchen area known as the parlor has become a popular gathering spot and features a large island where employees like to meet during lunch. The company has already hosted a couple of industry-related events in the space. "It's just great for people to come in here," LeFevre said. "We’ve really created a space where people can socialize. This fits the bill perfectly." Naumann Idrees, Bedrock’s senior vice president of leasing, said it was a natural fit for Christman to move into the Book Tower. "Them working on the building and being part of the process with Book Tower allowed us to form a different level of relationship with them as they looked to seek a different space than they had ..." he said. "It ended up being something that worked very well for both parties." While Idrees did not reveal the building's occupancy rate, he said the firm is in talks with numerous potential tenants for the remaining office space on the third floor. Potential tenants are drawn to Book Tower’s amenities, design and location in the core of the central business district, Idrees said. "We found that that building obviously has resonated very well in terms of that, but just the absolutely gorgeous architecture and restoration of the building, for those who it matters to, companies like Christman, it's been a really, really wonderful attraction point for us." cwilliams@detroitnews.com @CWilliams_DN This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: After helping redevelop Detroit's Book Tower, firm moves in

After helping redevelop Detroit's Book Tower, firm moves in #Detroit #BookTower #Construction

@koryukun.bsky.social

1 year ago

Book Tower website homepage

At last, I've found a way to follow the #fanfictions I have read!
Now I will be able to know how many words I have read every year (and how many books I didn't read because of that 🤣)
#BookTower is so awesome 🤩

app.mybooktower.com/my/dashboard

(Just 2 days to wait and I got my access)

#fanfiction

Pogo 🎨 is suffering with godot

@pogonr.bsky.social

1 year ago

we at @booktowerofficial.bsky.social have shared our yearly 'bookends' which shows users their booktower stats over the year! i wanted to share some of mine >:)

#booktower #reading #fanfic #book #webtoon

grace rocky save stars

@nmello.bsky.social

1 year ago

shoutout to #booktower for helping me log my fanfics this year!

PSS

@promptsin.bsky.social

1 year ago

Ascending through knowledge and imagination! 🌌📚✨ #AIArt #DigitalArt #BookTower #CreativeAI

Sacha Boulogne🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦

@sachaboulogne.bsky.social

1 year ago

#bookstack #booktower #boekenstapel #boekentoren #books #library #bibliotheek #bibliofilie

Dusanima

@dusanima.bsky.social

1 year ago

Good morning and an early good weekend to you all!
(View from the top of the #booktower ( #Boekentoren) this morning. 😊 #Ghent #Gent #UGent #sunrise

Dusanima

@dusanima.bsky.social

1 year ago

View from the 17th floor of the Ghent University Booktower.

In preparation of my fortnight in #Edinburgh, also known as 'city of stairs', I try to climb the stairs (21 floors) of the building I work in every morning: the #Ghent University Main #Library, known as The #Booktower ( #Boekentoren ) #UGent
Here's a view from the 17th floor.