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“At 10.15 a.m. a woman walked in and roared, ‘I am in my element! Books!’, then continued to shout questions at me for an hour while she waddled about the shop like a ‘stately goose’, as Gogol describes Sobakevich’s wife in Dead Souls. Predictably, she didn’t buy anything.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
“Any bookseller will tell you that, even with 100,000 booksneatly sorted and shelved in a well-lit, warm shop, if you put an unopened box of books in a dark, cold, dimly lit corner, customers will be riffling through it in a matter of moments. The appeal of a box of unsorted, unpriced stock is extroidinary.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
“When the old man in the crumpled suit came to the counter to pay for the copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, I discreetly pointed out that his fly was open. He glanced down - as if for confirmation of this - then looked back at me and said, 'A dead bird can't fall out of it's nest', and left the shop fly still agape.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
Jude’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jude’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
504 books
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89 friends
479 books
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60 friends
126 books
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49 friends
2 books
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1 friend
27 books
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18 friends
0 books
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182 friends
34 books
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48 friends
282 books
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93 friends
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