How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book.

"For readers, books are a universal salve. When we are hot, we read to feel cooler; when we are cold, we read to warm up; tired, books wake us; anxious, they calm us."

Really enjoyed the story, a book about a bookstore? What's not to love? Kind of skimmed over all the book mentions though.

"Listen carefully: it is a way to learn to live. There are grown ups who will say no, that literature is not life, that novels teach you nothing. They are wrong. Literature informs, instructs, it prepares you for life."