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“Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.” YearsBookWantedThreeKnownGoneSonFindingsLettersReceivingBookshopsFinding The One Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.” WantMindFirstsBookReadingSeeingSpecialReaderMeetingsProfitSalaryMarginsBookstoresNew BooksBookshopsBooksellers Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.” YearsBookWantedThreeKnownGoneFindingsBookstoresBookshopsFinding The One Author:Mary Ann Shaffer
