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Check Out These Three Superb Books About Bookstores
They are a must-read for any bibliophile
For book lovers, there’s just something about books about bookstores. Maybe it’s because we spend so much time there and love to learn the inner workings of the place that brings us so much joy, or maybe it’s because the mere familiarity is a comfort in uncertain times. Regardless of the reason, no bibliophile can resist a book about bookstores. The following are three of my favorites.
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Author Lewis Buzbee does something unexpected in The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop; he makes the history of books and the bookstores something you just can’t put down. During his career, Buzbee has written both fiction and non-fiction, and he has the ability to paint a vivid picture with very few words. When he describes a favorite bookshop on a dark, rainy Tuesday in November, you can feel the biting wind and see the inviting warmth of the store beckoning.
The book is billed as both a memoir and a history, and perhaps that is what makes it work. Right at the moment the historical aspect could start to become tedious, Buzbee switches gears to the memoir side, giving readers a glimpse into the world of the bookseller that few knew existed. And he is no newcomer to the book world, having started as a clerk at a…
