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6/21/24 — Welcome to Summer.
Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

This old bookrack – frail, but still in use – is in the earliest photos from the shop. 80+ year old retailer bookshelves. I've never really stopped to appreciate them in this aspect. Through the years, we've lost a few to wear and this one's fading. There are 5 more still in use, thankfully in better condition.

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2/22/24 – Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Two very interesting books from a pile of new arrivals. Are they Philosophy? Writing? Sociology? I love the challenge of shelving cross-topic books. I'll probably put them in Science... Or, just let them float around the tables for a bit and see who finds them first. 😉


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An image of two book photos, side by side. The left photo is a sky-blue book with thin white lettering, as follows: RICHARD DAWKINS' "BOOKS DO FURNISH A LIFE – Reading and Writing Science." Illustration is a photorealistic shelf of seven mismatched hardbacks, each a pastel blue or purple and a dark-brown book. The lower spine of all the books has a white DNA strand, as if a set. A giant prehistoric sea skeleton spans above this. On the left, small sea creatures cross the spines at an upward angle, becoming birds and flying above the books to the top right. The second book has an upright bird. The righthmost book is a profile of a chimp. The space remaining is broadleaf plants, becoming grass and ferns on top of the books. The right photo is a black book with large white titling, yellow sub-titling, and a red blurb, as follows: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, STEVEN PINKER, Author of THE BLANK SLATE. "THE STUFF OF THOUGHT – LANGUAGE AS A WINDOW INTO HUMAN NATURE." "CURIOUS, INVENTIVE, FEARLESS, NAUGHTY."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. Illustrations of objects in red, yellow, orange, blue, and green cross the cover. They are: stick of dynamite, paintbrush (for walls), bra, toaster, bowling pin, martini, GameBoy, toilet, men's briefs, cup of tea, sex doll, laptop, golf flag, cigar, pistol, vibrator, handcuffs, analog clock, TV, axe, electric chair, lipstick, bog roll, popsicle, straightjacket, and an overhead industrial winch.
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    2/13/24 — Happy Birthday, Grandma!
    Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    The ancestors are always near. Grandma Ruth Bonnett reminds me to straighten things up. The shop was her space. While Grandpa Harold was visiting publishers, Grandma kept the store in order, for almost 60 years.

    Color inset photo by Walter Bonnett, in the shop, ca. early-1980s.


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    A black and white photo of boxes piled high with a stack of books in the foreground and slightly to the right of frame. Above the books is a color inset photo of an elderly woman peering sternly over her glasses into the camera. A caption below her reads, "Get this place cleaned up..."
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