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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History | Lewis Buzbee
In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore - the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through the Weekly Reader in grade school. Woven throughout is a fascinating historical account of the bookseller trade - from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare & Co., that led to the extraordinary effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses. Rich with anecdotes, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the perfect choice for those who relish the enduring pleasures of spending an afternoon finding just the right book.
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mrp27
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#temptingtitles #withacolor

Once again it‘s been a minute since I‘ve done a photo challenge so it‘s time. Think I‘ll try to only post books from my tbr for this challenge.

robinb What a beautiful cover! 2y
Eggs Great cover 💙📚❤️ 2y
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Pickpick

This was a great listen. Read by the author, it explores the history of his own book lust, his time working in and frequenting various bookshops in the Bay Area. He packs in a ton of history about book selling, book binding, early writing to publishing, libraries, renowned sellers and the future of reading and books themselves. I particularly enjoyed that with later releases he includes (2 in this edition) updates on the state of the trade. 4⭐️

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LeslieO
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I can‘t resist a book that celebrates the joys of bookstores. #adventrecommends

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Caryl
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Mehso-so

This one was just okay for me. I wanted more memoir and less history, please.

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Aims42
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I loved this book so much! I want to order 500 copies of it and give it to everyone who is confused by my passion for reading. It also gave me some warm fuzzy feelings when he describes the bookstores he‘s worked in. I can‘t wait to go visit my favorite bookstores & libraries when it‘s safe!! Definitely worth a read for all book lusters and bibliophiles 🤓💗📚

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Aims42
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While perusing my next read from my TBR box (I‘m ashamed to say just how full this box is 😬) I picked this book up that I bought 3 years ago at a library book sale. I read 7 pages while I sat on the floor and I think it‘s just what I need right now: Essays that celebrate the unique experience of the bookstore. Sign me up!! I‘m missing the experience of waundering around my library and favorite bookstore, but this is only temporary 💖 #StayStrong

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Erynecki
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Pickpick

I think if you loved Susan Orlean‘s, The Library Book, you‘ll love this too. Published in 2006, it‘s a tad dated on the current bookstore scene, but nevertheless, it‘s a delightful tour of the contemporary retail bookstore along w/ a historical tour of books, publishing, and the selling of books. As we shelter in place, and I can‘t go visit my favorite bookstores, I thoroughly enjoyed Buzbee‘s reminiscing about bookstores/sellers, & book buyers.

Aims42 I‘ve had this on my TBR stack for a couple years, sounds like I should move it up 👍🏻 5y
Erynecki @Aims42 It had been on my TBR pile for a long time! Sometimes you just have to find the right time to circle back to books you‘ve been meaning to read... 5y
Aims42 @Erynecki Ain‘t that the truth 🙌🏻❤️ 5y
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PNWBookseller85
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Hey readers! This is a quick shout-out to local bookstores and other small businesses who are being affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Many bookshops stay viable by offering more than just books - regular author visits, book clubs, book fairs and other events. Without these events things are going to be tight for a lot of these family-owned stores. If you can, support your local indies during this time! Check out bookstorelink.com...

PNWBookseller85 To find a store near you. Many of these bookstores have online websites you can order from as well! Thank you! Stepping off the soap box now! 5y
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Morinen
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It's about one degree under the reading outside limit, but there's a half decent breeze. Not a whole lot of good places to read outside around here anyway, especially since I can't really sit on the ground.

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PNWBookseller85
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The bookshop where I work (on and off for 12 years now) on a snowy Seattle day.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Looks beautiful! 6y
Erinreadsthebooks 😍😍😍 6y
CouronneDhiver Pretty 🥰 6y
eraderneely Excellent photograph! 6y
Nute Love this photo! 5y
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MaGoose
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Pickpick

A pleasant read - a mix of memoir and the history of books and bookstores. The author used to work at bookstores and as a publisher's rep.

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MaGoose
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1. Teleport
2. Reading tagged book now
3. Write more
4. Don't watch Netflix
5. 😉☺🤓👌

#friyayintro @howjessreads

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LeslieO
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📚More reading, less TV
📚Choose books that are already on my shelves
📚45 books
📚at least 5 nonfiction, 5 YA/middle grade
#SundayFunday

sebrittainclark ❤🎉❤🎉❤ 6y
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PNWBookseller85
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One of the best parts about working in a bookshop is being on the frontlines politically. The store in Seattle where I work, the Secret Garden Bookshop, is putting our ARCs up for sale and donating the proceeds to RAICES Family Reunification and Bond Fund because we believe that families belong together. If you‘re in the area, stop by and say hello and help us make a difference.

Elisa It‘s an absolutely wonderful cause! However ARCs cannot be sold, only traded. Maybe you could ask people to give a charitable donation and as a thank you they can pick an ARC? You would achieve the same goal without breaking the rules... this is a really hot topic right now. (edited) 6y
PNWBookseller85 We‘re not profiting from the ARCs. Donating all the proceeds. We‘ve done it for years, usually donate to a literacy organization. It‘s within the rules. 😊@Elisa (edited) 6y
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BookishMe
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I call this my introductory textbook to book trade. Loved the insights into the history and various facets of the thriving industry. An industry that's the lifeline for us readers.
The folklore of Ulysses and those bookstores mentioned here... #santhiReads2018
Life is good when the weekend sees books completed and the week starts with completing another satisfying book!

GatheringBooks i hear you! they are my lifeline to sanity too. :) 7y
BookishMe @GatheringBooks 📚💖📓 7y
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BookishMe

A great book will never go out of style - books go with every outfit.

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Absolutely! There are so many gems of book love in this tribute to booksellers
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PNWBookseller85
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To the shelves that wrap around a person like a blanket, happy belated Valentine‘s Day. 😘

LegosAndPajamas Books 💜 7y
Alytrue Lovely! 7y
somebooksaround 🙌🙌🙌 7y
ReadingRuby 😍😍😍 7y
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BookishMe
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To build a city of books - a dream vocation indeed 😍😍

readinginthedark Borges wrote a very surreal kind of dystopian story about a library world. It‘s so good! 7y
BookishMe @readinginthedark yes, thanks for sharing! I have been looking out for thar book but I don't think it's available in the local library the other bookish dystopian I enjoy is Rachel Caine's 7y
readinginthedark That‘s a good one, too. I still need to read the sequel. 7y
BookishMe @readinginthedark I will need to start Book 3. Recently daughter borrowed the first 3 titles to reread and end with the third installment. I think Book 4 is on the way, if not already published. 7y
readinginthedark Oh, I thought it was just going to be a trilogy! Interesting! 7y
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BookishMe

The #bookseller had become a #bookstore.

And as always, more books, more readers, more booksellers.

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BookishMe
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... this may have been the moment when I realized there would never be enough time in my life to read everything.

... that the #books are right, we are not alone.

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This tribute to books is stirring such strong bookish emos that my eyes fill with tears, to see the words capture my devotion to books.

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BookishMe
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Once upon a time, never sounded more magical #nowreading

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BookishMe
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I went in search for Buzbee's book and found 2 other titles I couldn't resist! #librarysg #librarybooks #TBR

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librarypoweruser
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I think I fainted.

drokka It's on my list for my next trip to Scotland, though it's in a part I don't generally hang out, so would be a bit of a detour. Then again, vistas! 7y
mcipher What?!? Dream vacation!! ❤️❤️ 7y
readinginthedark Fun! ❤️ 7y
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PNWBookseller85
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Twinkle lights in the children‘s section. Be still my heart. This place is magic.

readinginthedark 😍😍😍 7y
britt_brooke Ooh, lovely! 7y
tpixie Lovely ❤️ 7y
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RebelReader 💕💕💕 7y
Drnkpnkprincess 💕😍💕 7y
youneverarrived 😍😍 7y
Mitch 😍 7y
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mrp27
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The.Intentional.Reader
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A real fear of mine!

Smangela I have the opposite fear where I won‘t get to read all the reading material lol 7y
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Smarkies
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A memoir about books and bookshops which is heartening to read... Especially for someone who loves them both. 😁

Also this quote totally sums up my current attitude towards book buying... 😂

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Nipper
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I loved this, a detailed history of book selling from antiquity to the present day. This book is an absolute joy.

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 2! I love this cover, don't you? And I love getting various peoples' viewpoints from different parts of the publishing industry, in this case a bookseller & sales rep. LB goes through his experiences in the book world starting in childhood--he regularly ordered from The Weekly Reader--and interweaves his favorite parts of bookish history, from the Library of Alexandria to Paris' Shakespeare & Co. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Zelma The Weekly Reader! ❤️ 8y
LornaDH Loved this one. Read it over the course of a long train journey. 8y
minkyb The Weekly Reader - yikes! 8y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 8y
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Tanner
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Day #7 #lighthouses #marchintoreading I thought I was going to be original with this one but @shelf-improvement beat me to it. Not technically a lighthouse but it looks like one (and the two bells have lighthouses on them). Such a lovely quiet book.

RealLifeReading I love all the lighthouse decorations you have! 8y
Tanner @RealLifeReading Thank you! A neighbour down the road had a small wooden outside that lights up! 8y
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All the books I could think of that featured real #lighthouses were books that had made me wrinkle my nose. But this book with an only kinda lighthouse changed my life. #marchintoreading

ReadingEnvy How did it change your life? This has been on my tbr list forever. 8y
shelf-improvement @ReadingEnvy It's the reason I went to school to study publishing. I read it when I was kind of adrift in terms of a career and it helped me realize what I could do with my life. 8y
ReadingEnvy @shelf-improvement that's amazing! 8y
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Tanner
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Day 25 #BooksPublishedInThe2000s #ReadJanuary Ace patiently allowing me to pose a few books published in the 2000s around him, & then hoping we'll go for a w-a-l-k (he knows the word, so I don't even dare type it ?). "Can You Keep A Secret" is hilarious & a great bathtub read (in fact, my copy shows signs of being water-logged). I stayed up all night to read (& bawl over) The Art Of Racing In The Rain. The Yellow-Light Bookshop is beautiful!

kspenmoll Have yellow lighthouse bkshop somewhere in the house... add to my TBR 💚 thx! 8y
Jenshootsweddings Even when I text the W word to my husband, the dogs just know and are at my feet before I put the phone down. Don't underestimate those cute faces! 8y
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Tanner @Jenshootsweddings Too true. And I know my cat is smarter than I am! ❤🐱🐶❤ 8y
RealLifeReading What a cutie 8y
Tanner @RealLifeReading Thanks! He uses his cuteness to full affect! 8y
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shelf-improvement
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These can be filed under 'starts with Y,' right? My next read and one of my favorite books about books. #SeasonsReadings2016

Tanner The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is a lovely book. Enjoy! 8y
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lauralovesbooks1
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A delightful love letter to books and bookselling.

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sharina
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My first pick for #rayadenganbuku. This book is a tribute to those who're inflicted by book lust since childhood and how the first book they read had given them opportunity to wander beyond their ordinary routine....which finally lead to the 2nd book and so forth. Lol.

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mrldg
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"I'm happy to be here in this cozy and solid place, happy to be alone among others." Ahh, yes.

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CherylDeFranceschi
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Sobering number! Must Read Harder!

ramyasbookshelf I shouldn't be adding any more books to my TBR pile 😂😂😂 8y
pppooraikul Now I can never look at my TBR pile the same way again! 😂 8y
CherylDeFranceschi @ramyasbookshelf @pppooraikul I think we should just look at this as incentive! 8y
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KilgoreTrout I've had legitimate anxiety about this fact 8y
Chessa @KilgoreTrout same here. 8y
Chelsey 😳😟that's it. No more interwebs for me 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Well, then, I just need to figure out how to be immortal 🤔 8y
CherylDeFranceschi @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com Once I was doing an in-store appearance for Sylvia Browne, the psychic, and she told me that the "bookstores on the other side have every book, ever, and we all have time to read all of them", so we all have that to look forward to!!! ? 8y
Gezemice It just means we should never waste time on a bad book. 8y
Megabooks Wow! Agree with @Gezemice 8y
moranadatter What @Gezemice said. I'm getting better at quitting. 8y
Gulfsidemusing Yes, what @Gezemice said!! I loved this book. 8y
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BookswithTea
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Another favorite category: books about books! 😍🤓