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Review: The Reluctant Bride by Leigh Greenwood. Review: A Little Bit Psychic by Aimee Avery. Review: Through Thick and Thin by Alison Pace. Mostly I found it lackluster and was disappointed that I already knew all of the history that it presented. In poking around the internet, I seem to be in a minority in my feelings on this book but I just didn't see the charm and delight that other reviewers felt in reading this. And while there were a few chosen bits about his obsessive love of reading and words here, overall, it was a much drier and slower read than I had anticipated. As a former bookstore employee myself, I know just how much Buzbee missed mining in a very fertile field when he chose to make this less personal and more generic. While this could be interesting itself, it wasn't really enough to sustain the book. Unfortunately, the latter overwhelms the former at almost every turn so instead of a history peppered with personal anecdotes about working in a bookstore, especially the colorful independents where Buzbee spent so much time, this is instead mostly a timeline of the emergence and growth of the bookstore, from the beginnings of libraries with their illuminated manuscripts to scribes to the printing press to stall holders and onward. Interwoven throughout is an historical account of the bookseller's trade-from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, which led to the effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses during the 1920s.Buzbee spent many years as a bookseller and publisher's sales rep so he would appear to be uniquely suited to writing a book about bookstores labelled both a memoir and a history. 
He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through The Weekly Reader in grade school. In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore-the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. Read Or Download The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History By Lewis Buzbee Full Pages.
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