Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
Mary Ann ShafferIt was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?
Mary Ann ShafferBecause there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings
Mary Ann ShafferI don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Mary Ann ShafferTag: silence marriage companionship talk
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
Mary Ann ShafferI much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
Mary Ann ShafferTag: whining
I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Mary Ann ShafferTag: humor
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann ShafferTag: humor on-fiction gender-stereotypes
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
Mary Ann ShafferTag: humor
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.
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