Scenes from a Bookshop edition by Hugh Gilmore Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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SCENES FROM A BOOKSHOP is a touching and memorable collection of short stories set in a used & rare book shop in Philadelphia. Brian, the forty-year-old manager gets sent to people's homes to buy books. On one house call he suffers from guilt as he dismantles an old man's library while the man sits and watches him. Back in the shop, he gets a phone call from an abrupt man who's in a hurry to find a book called, Sexual Astrology. On another call, a beautiful "Character Actress" involves him in her family drama. Later he meets a charming widow whose husband figures in, "Bipolar's what they call it nowadays." In "Chad and Billy Climb to Heaven," he climbs up a broken stepladder into an attic of broken dreams. In "Bags for the Big Bang," a library representing the Big Bang theory of the universe arrives at the shop in plastic trash bags. In the final story, he's "Trapped in a Bookshop" at night by a maniac who's raiding the Free Books bin outside. And all the while Brian dreams of re-meeting the beautiful "poetry lady" who asked him to find a book for her.
A FASCINATING LOOK BACKSTAGE IN THE WORLD OF OLD BOOKS.
Scenes from a Bookshop edition by Hugh Gilmore Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
I came upon this collection of vignettes because I was fascinated by Gilmore's 'Malcolm's Wine' a noir-ish tale of low-life and bad behavior in the fine-book trade. Malcolm's Wine is too fast-paced to give the reader more than a casual insight into the rare book business and Scenes from a Bookstore makes up for the lack. It's a series of stories, some fictionalized, some not that talk about the mysterious world of the bibliophile: a strange amalgam of refined pleasures and heavy lifting, high-minded literati, theives and scavengers.Getting an inside glimpse is always fascinating-think of the success of books about becoming a chef or a lawyer and if you love books, this is a world you'll want to know more about. But what makes this such a good read isn't the subject matter so much as it is the author. There are universal gems like : 'I wasn't thinking clearly. . .poetry will do that to a man" and truths of the trade like "good books are harder to buy than sell." I'll probably spend a lot of time thinking about "manners of the useless kind" and the peculiar metaphorogenic captivity of a merchant inside his store while a crazy man mutters outside.
For voyeuristic delight or the sheer pleasure of the reading, you should pick this up. You may find yourself becoming a Hugh Gilmore fan too.
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Scenes from a Bookshop edition by Hugh Gilmore Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks Reviews
I so enjoyed this collection. The writer lets you go inside the head of the book seller and buyer! A wonderful read, especially for anyone interested in peering behind the scenes of a small, but important destination for "bookies". He lets you in on all the rare finds, as well as the everyday shenanigans he encounters. Interesting people, easy read, and lots of insider information!
Thoroughly enjoyable. I felt as if I was part of the lives of the characters involved in this used book store. My only regret was when the book ended.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves books.
Hugh writes a weekly column in our local newspaper, and I enjoy his voice. This book is more of his cultured, multi-faceted, gently humorous approach. From the time he owned a bookstore in our town and the adventures it engendered. Yes, adventures!
Too short! I want more.
If these are the most exciting vignettes to happen to you within your bookstore, you either don't write a book about them or you better be a very good storyteller and have some really keen insights. Of course, the author possesses no such skills.
Each little anecdote in this book, which I assume is meant to provide a glimpse into the secret rich life of a rare book seller, amounts to much of the same thing People own worthless books but think they are valuable - and this inconveniences the shop owner, who is one of the few on this earth who can understand the value of a book. The author recounts the often sad situations when people need to jettison their collections, but because these incidental characters are so shallow, he is unable to generate much empathy from the reader. There is a backstory of some chick who came into his shop who he is trying to shag. There is no reason why the reader should regard this woman as anyone but someone in the litany of girls the shop owner has snagged, so the reader never really cares.
The whole thing reads like a rough draft in need of proofing and would have benefited greatly from constructive criticism from a writer group. This just goes to show that because you appreciate books and know how to put a price tag on them, you don't necessarily know how to write.
If you love used bookshops, this is a book for you. The pleasure of looking through crowded shelves of reader's past lives, finding the treasure,THE book you always needed to read (and own).... this pleasure is a creative work by the shop's owner. Finding those books in attics, basements and houses that are being vacated for assisted living is a very social act, a hunt that requires knowledge, guts and the toughness to say no to someone's prized shelves of books. "Scenes from a Bookshop" is a perspective from behind the counter. Great read and an interesting complement to Gilmore's "Malcolm's Wine".
I came upon this collection of vignettes because I was fascinated by Gilmore's 'Malcolm's Wine' a noir-ish tale of low-life and bad behavior in the fine-book trade. Malcolm's Wine is too fast-paced to give the reader more than a casual insight into the rare book business and Scenes from a Bookstore makes up for the lack. It's a series of stories, some fictionalized, some not that talk about the mysterious world of the bibliophile a strange amalgam of refined pleasures and heavy lifting, high-minded literati, theives and scavengers.
Getting an inside glimpse is always fascinating-think of the success of books about becoming a chef or a lawyer and if you love books, this is a world you'll want to know more about. But what makes this such a good read isn't the subject matter so much as it is the author. There are universal gems like 'I wasn't thinking clearly. . .poetry will do that to a man" and truths of the trade like "good books are harder to buy than sell." I'll probably spend a lot of time thinking about "manners of the useless kind" and the peculiar metaphorogenic captivity of a merchant inside his store while a crazy man mutters outside.
For voyeuristic delight or the sheer pleasure of the reading, you should pick this up. You may find yourself becoming a Hugh Gilmore fan too.
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