Musings
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Completing the jigsaw puzzle
Somebody today, asked what a typical day at the book shop looked like and we realised there is no typical day. We start off with grand plans to ‘tidy up’, which generally means, ‘make more mess’. We always hoover and water the plants and then we usually have a grand plan. The grand plan today […]
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Limericks
As booksellers who love real books printed on paper the advent of e-books has not been a welcome development. And the Kindle in particular as it binds users into a certain dominant online retailer. Here’s a couple of anti-Kindle limericks which I hope may cause a smile. A spy novel lover called Jane Found […]
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Books Made Of Paper
A paper book is a wondrous thing No batteries are needed You can shelve it for a hundred years Then take it down and read it. You can read it in the bath tub You can read it on the train You can read it when the sun is bright You can read it […]
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Out of This World
Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Swift. What have these writers got in common? One answer is that they are all writers of science fiction…..yet none would feature in most lists of science fiction writers and in bookshops and libraries you are unlikely to find them in the science fiction section. In […]