Shelf Awareness
In an ode to bookshops as places "where love stories begin," Bert Wright, curator of the Mountain to Sea dlr Book Festival and former bookseller, observed in the Irish Times that while there are many reasons to root for the survival of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, one of the most important "is the conviction that bookshops, like libraries, art galleries and theatres, satisfy a fundamental human appetite for culture and community and are therefore worth preserving. Always too, of course, there is the feeling that you meet more interesting people in bookshops."Noting that the "notion of bookshops as hang-outs for cruising and schmoozing often crops up in novels and in popular culture in general," Wright added that "it's not just readers and writers who find bookshops romantic, for many a bookseller has met their soul mate on the job. Twenty years ago this August I met mine. Reader, I married her."
Cool Yet Sad Display Idea: 'Our Most Stolen Books'
From a post yesterday on the Facebook page for Porter Square Books, Cambridge, Mass.: "Yes folks, it's a display of our most stolen books!"
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