Litsy

Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers | Anna James

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Found this and am adding it to my granddaughters books TBR! Tilly finds out that she can go into the books of her favorite characters. Oh how I wish I could do that! I‘ll be reading this entire series. So cute!:)

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SanjanaGhosh

The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel | Carsten Henn

So true!

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 2d

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youneverarrived

Bookshops: Long Established and the Most Fashionable | Markus Sebastian Braun

Took myself to Leeds for the day mostly to visit this new little, women led independent bookshop. They do coffee too 😁 will definitely be popping in again when I‘m next in Leeds.

squirrelbrain Oooh I was only reading about that yesterday! I need to make a trip soon - haven‘t been into Leeds for around a year, not even to visit The Leeds Library. 😳 3d

Chelsea.Poole That looks like the perfect cozy reading corner. 3d

Cathythoughts Lovely and bright 💛 3d

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youneverarrived @squirrelbrain ah really, did you use to go to the library regularly? A trip overdue then, an excuse to pop into the bookshop 😁 2d

youneverarrived @Chelsea.Poole I know, so cosy 🤍 2d

youneverarrived @Cathythoughts I love the colours 🩷 2d

squirrelbrain Yes, I joined when I worked in Leeds just round the corner and I used to go nearly every day! ☺️ I‘m still a member now as I feel like I have to support them. I‘ve just been so busy that I haven‘t been to Leeds to do a spot of shopping even. 🤷‍♀️ 2d

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kspenmoll

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers | James Patterson, Matt Eversmann

#auldlangspine #2025
Enjoying this book so much! A great way to pass the time while i was waiting at the doctor‘s office.Unfortunately I do have bacterial pneumonia but I am in all the right meds & will be home healing fir the foreseeable future.

Born.A.Reader, monalyisha

Librarybelle Oh no! I hope you feel better soon. Lots of extra kitty cuddles will help too! 3d

BarbaraJean Ugh to the pneumonia! Hope you can get lots of rest and good reading and are feeling better soon! 3d

Lesliereadsalot Boo! Feel better, rest and hydrate. I hear reading is good for pneumonia! 3d

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ShelleyBooksie Yikes! Sending you healing vibes 3d

Bookwormjillk Oh no! I‘m glad you went to the doctor. 3d

AnnCrystal Rest, read, stay warm. May you be back to normal soon 🙏💝. 3d

dragondrool Feel better! That is a fun book! 3d

julesG Feel better soon! 3d

youneverarrived Feel better soon 🤍 2d

monalyisha Wishing you well! ✨ 22h

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melissajayne

The Sentence | Louise Erdrich

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4⭐️ Really enjoyed this #bookclub pick. Got into it much easier than the previous ones that I have read of hers. #2025 #indigineous #contemporary #fiction #covid19fiction

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Robotswithpersonality

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: The heart-warming Korean sensation | Hwang Bo-reum

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I had no idea this book would be so focused on the nature of work, but I loved it for that: business owner vs being a company person, part time work vs full time, the corporate tendency to offer contract over permanent position, needing to be seen as a success, the rat race, the need to make an income, make a profit vs work/life balance, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? plans for the future - when exiting high school, when entering the workforce, when considering the next step in your career, when opening a business - how far ahead can you plan, really? Evaluating effort and contribution, puritanical work ethic.
As much about coffee as books and coffee-related businesses as book businesses. 6d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Speaking of which, I personally didn't like Before the Coffee Gets Cold, but I feel like this has some (improved) parallels in the way it addresses failed/turbulent relationships, reflecting on the past and deciding on the future.
Reading the author's note and finding out the author is an essayist adds to my understanding of many chapters that felt like framing for a specific topic, for a conversation/debate to happen between characters. 6d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I do appreciate the way time passes, a format emerges of introducing a new idea/thing happening, and then kind of sliding forward and back in progress along that theme, which may be revisited later, there is still a fair amount of linear chronology, direct connection between one chapter and the next. 6d

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? I am fond of the amount of times that mentions of crocheting and knitting found their way onto the page. ☺️ And of course discussions of what books can do, what a community of people drawn together by books and book spaces can do for each other.
The writing reminds me of self-help non-fiction a bit, very straightforward, methodical in exploring a topic, even in detailing the actions of a character, which appears to me a bit wooden when scenes 6d

Robotswithpersonality 6/? of greater emotion are at play.
When a work is translated and I encounter an uneven reading experience, I'm never sure if it's a faithful representation of the author's unique style, my western reader eyes bumping into a common style of writing from a different part of the world, or that the translator is giving the reader a more basic version of the writing than the original because it was the clearest way to communicate the change to 6d

Robotswithpersonality 7/? English. I did like how certain words stay in Korean, especially around relationships, conveying something unique to the culture.
If you need a safe, quiet space to acknowledge the many pitfalls of being roped into the capitalist workforce, and societal expectations around relationships, being reminded of all the ways you can still make changes, enjoy life, while earning a living, I think this is a good place to stop and rest in for a while. 6d

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 ⚠️verbal abuse of adult child by mother 6d

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