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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
funny
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medium-paced
funny
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inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
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Added this book to my shelf for all my favourite books. Its a really funny, goofy and warm-heartening diary that Shaun Bythell wrote about his life in the antiquarian. You get to meet all these fun and unique personalities of his friends and just people he knows. It was just very wholesome but also shows the difficulties a bookseller faces
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Ég er ennþá að ákveða hvort ég var hrifin eða ekki. Það eru meðmæli út af fyrir sig! Þetta er í alvöru dagbók og byggð á lífi höfundar sem er bóksali. Mikið af endurtekningum og upptalningum, en þannig er náttúrulega hversdagslífið. Svartur húmorinn bjargar geðheilsu lesandans.
A hilarious honest account of what daily life is like in a bookshop. Having worked in retail I found myself agreeing with the crazy people who visit shops.
"At 10 a.m. the first customer came through the door: 'I'm not really interested in books' followed by 'Let me tell you what I think about nuclear power.' By 10.30 a.m. the will to live was but a distant memory." (p.273)
As a bookseller you have a love/hate relationship with you customers and I can't even imagine how tiring it must be to constantly being asked to reduce the price of your books. Thankfully we don't have that problem in Germany (with new books at least).
It was interesting to have a glimpse into the life of someone who acquires and sells 'used books' and even comes across some treasures hidden in private libraries (real incunabulas for example!).
Even though customers can be a nuisance sometimes, they are what makes the job so interesting!
As a bookseller you have a love/hate relationship with you customers and I can't even imagine how tiring it must be to constantly being asked to reduce the price of your books. Thankfully we don't have that problem in Germany (with new books at least).
It was interesting to have a glimpse into the life of someone who acquires and sells 'used books' and even comes across some treasures hidden in private libraries (real incunabulas for example!).
Even though customers can be a nuisance sometimes, they are what makes the job so interesting!
I was so utterly disappointed in this book after seeing such great reviews here. I enjoyed the grumpy author and the cast of characters, and I even enjoyed the quirky folk who came to visit the bookstore. Unfortunately, I just felt like there wasn't a real story here - no plot to speak of, whatsoever. I would have preferred the book to be about 150 pages shorter and have been comprised of short stories rather than a journal/diary format. So much of what he describes is so mundane - hundreds of cups of tea, entries on who is working the shop that day (I'm not sure why we care about this?) and boring descriptions of software that stops working. I really wanted to like this book about books as a lover of second-hand books and reading but this feel painfully short for me.