I recognise so many of these customers from both my days volunteering at a local charity shop (thrift store) and when I worked in my friend's hardware store. Particulaly the ones who came in for a chat! I was always amazed at the obvious "Poachers" at the charity store, when it was run mainly by volunteers, and the majority of the sales price went to charity!
This was lovely! While reading, I was envisioning my local secondhand bookstore. This reminds me of Shaun Bythell’s books, particularly Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops. Have you read them?
I wonder, Rosalynn, if you have to limit yourself to how many books you allow yourself to take home?! I can imagine that I would end up buying all the books... 📚
I do! I have to set little rules for myself. I believe I have about six books from the store on my TBR shelf and until I read at least two, I told myself I’m not allowed to take home another one. If I spot a nice edition of a book I’ve already read and loved but do not currently own, I can add that to my collection. I know from past attempts at dieting that a hard limit like “no new books at all” would not work. I’d just come home with a stack at the end of every shift, until I ran out of shelf space :)
What a great name. I wonder if they’ve got as many copies of The Chronicles of Narnia on hand as we do. Tragically, we have three near-complete sets. Why everyone is hanging onto to The Magician’s Nephew, I’ll never know!
I recognise so many of these customers from both my days volunteering at a local charity shop (thrift store) and when I worked in my friend's hardware store. Particulaly the ones who came in for a chat! I was always amazed at the obvious "Poachers" at the charity store, when it was run mainly by volunteers, and the majority of the sales price went to charity!
This was lovely! While reading, I was envisioning my local secondhand bookstore. This reminds me of Shaun Bythell’s books, particularly Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops. Have you read them?
Thanks so much! I have not read this book, but I just checked it out and it sounds right up my alley. Adding it to my TBR.
I wonder, Rosalynn, if you have to limit yourself to how many books you allow yourself to take home?! I can imagine that I would end up buying all the books... 📚
I do! I have to set little rules for myself. I believe I have about six books from the store on my TBR shelf and until I read at least two, I told myself I’m not allowed to take home another one. If I spot a nice edition of a book I’ve already read and loved but do not currently own, I can add that to my collection. I know from past attempts at dieting that a hard limit like “no new books at all” would not work. I’d just come home with a stack at the end of every shift, until I ran out of shelf space :)
That sounds like a very sensible plan!!
That sounds like a very sensible plan!!
His others are quite good too. The Diary of a Bookseller is his first—it seems similar to what you do here! (Except he’s a Scottish curmudgeon)
It’s called The Dawn Treader, by the way 😊
What a great name. I wonder if they’ve got as many copies of The Chronicles of Narnia on hand as we do. Tragically, we have three near-complete sets. Why everyone is hanging onto to The Magician’s Nephew, I’ll never know!
Just found your newsletter via Kate Jones and looking forward to it. I am so pleased to see a Clerks reference here!