Hello from Past Times (as in, yesterday, not that shop that used to sell scarves that looked like tapestries and Charles Rennie Macintosh everythings).
This is not a live bulletin from the bookshop. I am not even in the bookshop as I write this. This is a SCHEDULED post that I am writing in haste on Thursday because there will not be a Receipt from the Bookshop this week. I am simply not there!
*update* This was because I was meant to be having a wonderful weekend away with my friends but my plans were derailed at the last minute by a surprise sickness bug my beautiful daughter brought home from school as a treat. Now I'm at home amending this draft to make the reason for my absence disgusting rather than enviable while I wait to find out if I will also go full exorcist in the next 24 hours. This out-of-bookshop newsletter seems a lot less smug than it did a few hours ago!
So, apologies, you’ll have to wait until Next Friday for your regular installment of till transactions and insults from outside and all that quality content… Hope you aren't half as disappointed as I am!
In the meantime, I thought I might hand the floor over to you lot and find out where you’re reading from. Why not say hello in the comments and if you’ve got one - tell me about your local bookshop.
See you next week,
Katie
Oh, that’s no fun at all! I hope you feel better soon. I’m in Narni, Italy, staying in my new little stone house above the cellar with soaring ceilings I’m turning into a bookshop! So I’m hoping to soon be the bookshop in my area. I get so much inspiration from your posts. I can’t wait to be a fellow bookseller!
I live in Salida, a small, rough-around-the-edges town in central Colorado, between two mountain ranges. We have a tiny independent bookstore, Salida Books, but I use our Carnegie library as they have Random House Large Print books. I am 80 years old and have macular degeneration so the large print or books on Libby are best for me now.
I just picked up The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. Your recommendation of The Mission House is on my list. I’m also reading The Bee String by Paul Murray and Kristin Hannah’s The Women.
I enjoy the glimpses of your day very much. It brightens mine considerably, so thank you.