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On CD) I'm a big Kingsolver fan, and with the exception of The Lacuna, have thoroughly enjoyed every one.There is much to be learned in her books, and often about ecology and sustainability as well as other current issues, even when the plot steersth
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“When the old man in the crumpled suit came to the counter to pay for the copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, I discreetly pointed out that his fly was open. He glanced down - as if for confirmation of this - then looked back at me and said, 'A dead bird can't fall out of it's nest', and left the shop fly still agape.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
“At 10.15 a.m. a woman walked in and roared, ‘I am in my element! Books!’, then continued to shout questions at me for an hour while she waddled about the shop like a ‘stately goose’, as Gogol describes Sobakevich’s wife in Dead Souls. Predictably, she didn’t buy anything.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
“Any bookseller will tell you that, even with 100,000 booksneatly sorted and shelved in a well-lit, warm shop, if you put an unopened box of books in a dark, cold, dimly lit corner, customers will be riffling through it in a matter of moments. The appeal of a box of unsorted, unpriced stock is extroidinary.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
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