“Confessions of a Bookseller” \ stacker news ~BooksAndArticles

«As a child, I came to play under the boards», says Fernando Plaza, who remembers happy times that occurred more than seven decades ago in the Cuesta de Moyano . Everyone who knows this small street knows perfectly well what it means, those characteristic street tables that every day assemble and disassemble booksellers with pampering to show part of his catalogue. In his childhood, a place of recreation. «He came with Marivi [also a bookmaker],…

“Confessions of a Bookseller” \ stacker news ~BooksAndArticles

Shaun Bythell’s “Confessions of a Bookseller” is a perfect example that illustrates how the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Essentially, this book comprises his diary entries for each single day of a particular year. Shaun runs a secondhand bookstore in Scotland. Prior to picking up the book, I think I was expecting heartwarming encounters with his customers and fascinating intellectual discussions in which they derived universal ins…