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I've been wanting to get to this as McMurtry tells about his life in, around, and selling books. Sounds interesting!

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This one‘s a total #BlameItOnLitsy (I‘m looking at you, @NatalieR ), and I‘m so glad! McMurtry spent 50 years in the book dealing trade, and that‘s what he focuses on here. It‘s really interesting and taught me I definitely don‘t want to be a book dealer! I would rather enjoy books for their content rather than focus on monetary value.

McMurtry opens this memoir sharing about his upbringing, which contained very few books. He first opened Booked Up in Washington, DC in the 1970s. The store expanded to Houston, Dallas, and Tucson before opening the final storefronts in Archer City, Texas. This memoir contains short, quick chapters of informative and entertaining stories about McMurtry‘s experiences buying books. 📚

Full review at https://abookandadog.com

#weremember #LarryMcMurtry Before he could make a living by writing, he was a book scout .Going from town to town , trying to find a treasure in the dusty used bookstores.He had a multi building bookstore in his hometown, Archer City,Tx.downsized it substantially before he passed.His son is a working musician, not available to work a bookstore job.In the tagged book Larry talks about his love & history w/ books & characters he met along the way.

I don't remember either of my parents ever reading me a story-perhaps that's why I've made up so many.

@Kaye and other Larry McMurtry lovers, this book is on sale for 99 cents on Kindle today.

Never heard this word before

I was thinking through some different reason why I love books so much and why they have such a powerful presence in my life. So thought I'd share some reasons, one at a time, through some different posts. REASON #1: I love books because of their ability to transport me into different worlds and times. The ability of traveling by pure imagination is one of my favorite things that books can do.

My #bookspinepoetry - for the @24in48 Hour 30 Challenge - is very bibliophilic this morning:

Books:
Paradise
What I loved
Where I lived and what I lived for
Life after life

So last night I decided to weed out a few books and ended up picking 12 books I no longer need.....And it didn't even make a noticable dent.

Heading to the Texas Book Festival with my wife @courtney today! #texasbookfestival

Create a Shortcut for Kindle Store on iPhone or iPad. Go to http://amzn.to/kinstore and click the share button. Choose Add to Home Screen from the bottom actions menu and a shortcut will be created on your home screen, icon and everything.

Happy 80th birthday, Larry McMurtry. Some day I'll make it to Archer City, TX and visit your bookshop "Booked Up"!