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I‘ve been working on a big life change for several months… next month I‘m leaving my career in education after 19 years to open a bookstore!!!

I‘m soooo excited! I‘ve been taking classes so I‘m now a “certified frontline bookseller,” shadowing bookstore owners, and doing a deep dive into small business ownership. The store is called Bookish Notions and I‘m working to secure a storefront in southeastern PA! I‘m looking at Ambler at the moment. ⬇️

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

I really enjoyed this, I thought it worked really well as an audiobook. Shaun is grumpy but loveable bookseller, who did make me feel guilty for owning a kindle. And not so guilty about my hoard of books. He paints vivid images of his customers and staff - not always favourable but usually very humorous.

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Ruth Shaw has led one incredible and adventurous life. Although her journey was filled with much pain and heartbreak, she looks back upon her life with tenderness. Throughout most of her memoir, my thoughts were, "How did she do all this? How would one even begin? I could never!"

This is more than the story of a bookseller in New Zealand. It's the story of a daughter, mother, sailor (extraordinaire!), lover, survivor, and fierce friend.

I like to dive into books without much checking them out beforehand. But sometimes it‘s better to read some trigger warnings. This was this month‘s pick for #foodandlit. It started lovely but then got very dark very fast. And then even darker. It‘s a fascinating autobiography, I read it till the end. But for you so you don‘t make the same mistake: trigger warnings are in the comments.

I am in love with this book! It has little paintings of the bookstore, a little blurb about it, and then a quote or tidbit about the bookstore. It brings me so much joy.

❄️ The tagged book. Adorable, witty and one every bookworm should read.
❄️ ❄️ Crescent City 3. It just arrived today!!🤩
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Fellow bibliophiles! This is a book everyone needs to at least read, if not own! I'm only halfway through, but the wit and wordplay of this author have me cackling or smiling at nearly every page. A Titanic mention, a LOTR quote (from Bilbo, if you're curious), and a subtle Beauty & the Beast reference, have sprung out of the pages like old friends. It's a fantastic read about Sotheran's, on Sackville Street, the 'Oldest Bookshop in the World'.

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A bookshop? Tuscany? How could it be bad, right? 😁