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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Ich habe mich durchgequält, war mehrmals davor abzubrechen. Nörgelnder alter Mann beschreibt es wohl am Besten von der Stimmung her, wahrscheinlich weiß man das man das erwarten soll wenn man die Facebookseite (?) des Ladens kennt.
Ich bin uninformiert ins Buch eingestiegen u.a. wegen dem Cozy Coverbild. Es ist im Tagebuchstil geschrieben und fast jeder Eintrag beginnt mit "Nicky arbeitet heute im Laden", wenn dort nicht Nicky steht dann irgendein anderer Frauenname. Das Beste am Buch ist das Umschlagbild würde ich sagen. Ansonsten ein schaler Versuch die Serie Black Books in Buchform nachzuahmen im modernen Zeitalter.
Interessante Stellen waren beispielsweise über das Bücherdorf in dem das Buch spielt, oder auch wenn es mal wirklich um andere Personen geht. Hätte man gut um mindestens die Hälfte kürzen können.
Ich bin uninformiert ins Buch eingestiegen u.a. wegen dem Cozy Coverbild. Es ist im Tagebuchstil geschrieben und fast jeder Eintrag beginnt mit "Nicky arbeitet heute im Laden", wenn dort nicht Nicky steht dann irgendein anderer Frauenname. Das Beste am Buch ist das Umschlagbild würde ich sagen. Ansonsten ein schaler Versuch die Serie Black Books in Buchform nachzuahmen im modernen Zeitalter.
Interessante Stellen waren beispielsweise über das Bücherdorf in dem das Buch spielt, oder auch wenn es mal wirklich um andere Personen geht. Hätte man gut um mindestens die Hälfte kürzen können.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Una reseña de la vida de una persona dedicada a los libros, muy entretenida y con situaciones bastante peculiares. Ideal para toda persona interesada en los libros.
PD: Me encantó el personaje de Nicky =)
PD: Me encantó el personaje de Nicky =)
I'm sure nearly every bookish person has daydreamed of owning a bookshop at one time or another, and this is a very funny and cynical account of that process. Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop, located in the south-western town of Wigtown. This is a journal he kept throughout 2014, and it details the day-to-day interactions and struggles that come up in the store.
Shaun Bythell is hilarious. He mentions he's been compared to Bernard Black from Black Books, and you can really see why. You can feel the slight disdain for customers bubbling under (and often over) the surface in each journal entry, but he very obviously loves the life as well. He is deeply annoyed by ridiculous customers, the sort of customers that seem completely exaggerated unless you've worked in customer service and have seen how people can act, but he also seems to take a certain amount of pleasure in their quirky behaviour and bizarre requests. He only truly rages against Amazon in this, which is fair enough.
I could see some people finding this a bit dull, but I loved it. I loved the mundane details of owning and stocking the shop, and I loved his descriptions on his customers and staff. He can be ruthless in these descriptions, which apparently garnered him quite a following on Facebook. I thought I had bookmarked a few passages in the audiobook to quote here, but they didn't seem to take, which is a shame. Scottish Review of Books has a few entries available to read, although they don't include any of my favourite bits.
I will make an effort to visit The Bookshop next time I find myself in Scotland. Here's hoping I won't do something silly enough to be mentioned on his Facebook page. Interestingly, he's actually opened a vacation rental in Wigtown called The Open Book, where you rent out the home above another bookshop and run it while you're there, to give people a taste of owning their own shop. It's a neat idea, although I'm not actually sure whether I'd want to spend my holiday doing that, even if a lot of my holiday time does usually end up in bookshops.
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Shaun Bythell is hilarious. He mentions he's been compared to Bernard Black from Black Books, and you can really see why. You can feel the slight disdain for customers bubbling under (and often over) the surface in each journal entry, but he very obviously loves the life as well. He is deeply annoyed by ridiculous customers, the sort of customers that seem completely exaggerated unless you've worked in customer service and have seen how people can act, but he also seems to take a certain amount of pleasure in their quirky behaviour and bizarre requests. He only truly rages against Amazon in this, which is fair enough.
I could see some people finding this a bit dull, but I loved it. I loved the mundane details of owning and stocking the shop, and I loved his descriptions on his customers and staff. He can be ruthless in these descriptions, which apparently garnered him quite a following on Facebook. I thought I had bookmarked a few passages in the audiobook to quote here, but they didn't seem to take, which is a shame. Scottish Review of Books has a few entries available to read, although they don't include any of my favourite bits.
I will make an effort to visit The Bookshop next time I find myself in Scotland. Here's hoping I won't do something silly enough to be mentioned on his Facebook page. Interestingly, he's actually opened a vacation rental in Wigtown called The Open Book, where you rent out the home above another bookshop and run it while you're there, to give people a taste of owning their own shop. It's a neat idea, although I'm not actually sure whether I'd want to spend my holiday doing that, even if a lot of my holiday time does usually end up in bookshops.
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slow-paced
funny
informative
relaxing
fast-paced
Clearly mundanity appeals to me. Following the day-by-day trials of the author went by quickly. Bythell is at least aware that the bookish misanthrope is a trope and seems to enjoy embodying it. Like the last memoir/diary I read, parts rang a little false and practiced, but after all, it had to be edited for publication.
Il libraio Shaun Bythell ci racconta, come in una sorta di diario, di quanto sia davvero frustrante, ma anche soddisfacente e soprattutto avventuroso, il lavoro nella sua libreria “The Book Shop” di Wigtown.
Ogni giorno Shaun ha a che fare con clienti di ogni specie, combattendo una guerra contro Amazon e i Kindle, organizza iniziative culturali legate ai libri e viaggia per il Regno Unito raccogliendo volumi usati da rivendere.
Un libro divertente, triste e commovente, ma soprattutto vero, poiché tutto ciò che si racconta è successo, anche se alle volte può sembrare talmente assurdo da sembrare una storia di fantasia.
Leggendo innamoratevi della libreria scozzese, dei suoi libri usati, dei dipendenti e del proprietario, odiando insieme a loro la gente insopportabile e le multinazionali, che tolgono lavoro alle librerie indipendenti.
«Il Book Shop ha libri a migliaia, d’ogni colore, tinta e cromia, e ogni copertina, che sia austera o gaia, è una porta su un mondo di magia».
Buona Lettura,
Vavi Verlaine
Ogni giorno Shaun ha a che fare con clienti di ogni specie, combattendo una guerra contro Amazon e i Kindle, organizza iniziative culturali legate ai libri e viaggia per il Regno Unito raccogliendo volumi usati da rivendere.
Un libro divertente, triste e commovente, ma soprattutto vero, poiché tutto ciò che si racconta è successo, anche se alle volte può sembrare talmente assurdo da sembrare una storia di fantasia.
Leggendo innamoratevi della libreria scozzese, dei suoi libri usati, dei dipendenti e del proprietario, odiando insieme a loro la gente insopportabile e le multinazionali, che tolgono lavoro alle librerie indipendenti.
«Il Book Shop ha libri a migliaia, d’ogni colore, tinta e cromia, e ogni copertina, che sia austera o gaia, è una porta su un mondo di magia».
Buona Lettura,
Vavi Verlaine
I bought this book from Shaun Bythell in the Wigtown Book Shop and really hope that my conduct there doesn't make it into future editions of his diary (I did buy quite a few books).
The diary format means that there is quite a bit of repetition while in other places, it feels like there are big holes. The Wigtown Book Festival results in entries such as 'lots of famous people in having really interesting conversations - weird' (I paraphrase, but you get the gist).
While there are undoubtedly funny bits (mainly supplied by his assistant Nicky who seems to do whatever the hell she likes) the overall tone is of a grumpy man who is irritated by almost everyone who enters his shop.
That said, his shop is amazing, a rabbit warren of rooms with everything a bibliophile could ask for. If you are ever in SW Scotland, it is definitely worth a look, just don't ask 'Do you sell books?' or 'Can I have a discount?'
The diary format means that there is quite a bit of repetition while in other places, it feels like there are big holes. The Wigtown Book Festival results in entries such as 'lots of famous people in having really interesting conversations - weird' (I paraphrase, but you get the gist).
While there are undoubtedly funny bits (mainly supplied by his assistant Nicky who seems to do whatever the hell she likes) the overall tone is of a grumpy man who is irritated by almost everyone who enters his shop.
That said, his shop is amazing, a rabbit warren of rooms with everything a bibliophile could ask for. If you are ever in SW Scotland, it is definitely worth a look, just don't ask 'Do you sell books?' or 'Can I have a discount?'
Dobré aj napriek tomu, že mi zjavne unikali niektoré drobné nuansy britského humoru a miestnych reálií. Aj napriek tomu všetkému ide o peknú sondu do jedného pracovno-súkromného roku kníhkupca (teda skôr antikvariátnika) so všetkým, čo má byť s ním spojené.
Paradoxom je, že ma navnadila na inú knihu/text o ktorej som vôbec nevedel - zážitky G. Orwella s knihami.
Paradoxom je, že ma navnadila na inú knihu/text o ktorej som vôbec nevedel - zážitky G. Orwella s knihami.