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📚 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

“It’s hard, when you’re a voracious reader, to accept the fact that not everyone else is, but the reality sometimes slaps you in the face when you witness parents dragging their children out of a bookshop, rather than into it.”

This humorous addition to Bythell’s books on working in his bookshop in Scotland adds a bit of eye-rolling and a bit of laughing and a bit of scoffing as you try to figure out what type of bookshop person you are.

As someone who works in retail, I found the anecdotes on customers to be funny, but there was a bit of meanness to the descriptions that made me uncomfortable, thinking of the oblivious people who don’t know they’re being annoying. I will say that some of his observations seem spot on. I say this as someone who has never worked in a bookstore, let alone a second-hand one.

If you’ve got thick skin and want to read something light and funny, I’d suggest picking this book up and flipping through it.

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I finally know what pulp fiction actually is

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Did I buy this book because it had my favorite animal on the cover?

Yes, yes I did.

💞 Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke

“Rewriting the science of evolution and sex, Cooke shows how a band of pioneering, feminist biologists have uncovered the dizzying diversity of bodies, brains, and behavior that evolution has created. Whether investigating same-sex female albatross couples or murderous mother meerkats, Cooke reveals a new understanding of what being female can mean, and, indeed, of how evolution itself can work.”

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my pic!!

[Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman]

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🌳 currently reading 🌳

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June 3 || LGBTQIA+ Pride:

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“How many wives out there have it much, much worse?” “Why should other women’s unhappiness justify mine?”

- An Excess Male

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“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”

- Neuromancer

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“A man who overestimates his intelligence is a man who can be easily manipulated.”

- The Wife Upstairs

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“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”

- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

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“Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.”

- Neuromancer

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“This is another trick I’ve learned over the years—make people think they have the upper hand, and they trust you so much faster.”

- The Wife Upstairs

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“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

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🐡Novel Ebook Reads June ‘22 🐡

Prompt • Books & Flowers

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Current library books