Reading in the Garden

 Bookselling Bliss What a joy this book was!  I loved being invited into Shaun Bythell’s daily life as a bookseller in Scotland. His dry humor and deadpan observations had me smiling and even laughing out loud page after page.  A couple of people I work with at the Well-Read Moose bookstore in Coeur d'Alene read it before I did and highly recommended it.  They were so right!  Good choice. Here are a couple quotes to entice you:  ·      “As I was leaving [the barber shop], I met Mr. Deacon coming in for whatever treatment he has applied to his comb-over.” Pg 155 ·      Anna talked Shaun into going to Glasgow to see the Disney film   Into the Woods.   “This is my idea of hell: I dislike musicals and I’m no fan of Disney, so the combination of the two will unquestionably result in a film that is the cinematic equivalent of a week in the waterboarding wing of Guantánamo Bay.”  Pg 285 ·      “ …bookshops—mine in any case—can be bitterly cold places in winter. Mine not because of the ri