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Mr. Friss has written a love story to the radical and revolutionary ties bookshops have to the communities which host them. He imparts American history as much as he details the trajectory of bookselling. This is a definite recommendation.

A cold rain, a new puppy, and a book on the couch. What could be better? Meet Harper, my new reading buddy/early Christmas present.

While this uplifting,gem of a novel is about the effect of books on people,mostly it is about the friendship that blossoms between Carl, an elderly book walker book walker a Schascha, a precocious 10-year-old girl. Together, they walk the streets at night to deliver books curated by Carl to shut-ins.Themes include the magic of reading,the power books to unite people & form friendships, & the power of books to create community.#10BeforetheEnd

My #bookspinbingo picks @TheAromaofBooks

Anyone relate to this quote?!!!! 📚📚📚📚

I love books about books - this is a fascinating, anecdotal wander through histories of collectors, libraries and ideas.

As early as 1806 the traveller John Lambert noticed... [NYC] bookshops were 'numerous' and that a lot of people seemed to be reading in coffee shops. Two early characters were Emanuel Conegliano, one of Mozart's librettists, who ran a specialist Italian bookstore so compendious that Columbia University bought [it and] ...William Gowans, parts of whose shop, with its piles of books up to ten feet high, had to be navigated with sperm-oil lamps.

Martha Nussbaum argued... Western concern with cleanliness is ' a refusal to... be contaminated by a potent reminder of one's own mortality and animality'.

.....The Finnish philosopher Olli Lagerspetz takes comfort from the idea that hygiene can be suspect:

As a sometimes negligent householder... I am naturally soothed by the idea that exaggerated cleanliness is not next to godliness but to fascism and xenophobia.

Mark O'Connell of the New Yorker likes the idea that 'a nicely sharpened HB' can be so powerful, and is funny about it:

"I tend to slot mine behind my right ear, carpenter style; I like to think this lends a somewhat rough-and-ready aspect to my appearance as I sit reading Middlemarch on the bus home.

Great read, especially timely. Jam packed with information about Amazon, their practices, and the global, far reaching implications. Borrrowed from my library, this was written by a indie bookstore owner who has a clear perspective and strong opinions about the best way to fight back against the shady dealings and secretive data mining they Amazon has perfected. Also, going to exclusively track my books in storygraph next yr, no more goodreads.