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A while ago now, before Christmas at least, I picked up The Maze Runner in a bookshop, read a page of it, and decided I literally hated it.
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Even the stewards are extravagantly nice, and a notice in the festival bookshop reads more like an apology than a warning: "We earnestly request you to pay before leaving".
There is Donna, a restless housewife with a hunger for doughnuts, booze and hanky-panky; Danny, a Rolex-flashing financial consultant who is busted for peeping at Donna through dressing-room curtains; and most plausibly, a dreadlocked young would-be genius named Jeff who loiters in the bookshop reading Hermann Hesse.
It is possible that Johnson spent most of his time in his father's bookshop reading various works and building his literary knowledge.
I will forget about suiting up – because my suit knows what it's doing – and being steered out to a bookshop reading that felt very much like an absurd opportunity to celebrate the accumulated failures of my life.
To earn money, Johnson began to stitch books for his father, and it is likely that Johnson spent much time in his father's bookshop reading and building his literary knowledge.
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AN Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop "To read Fanny Burney," wrote the critic Walter Allen, "is rather like having a mouse's view of the world of cats: the cats are very terrifying, but the mouse's sense of the ridiculous could not be keener".
Duffy's anthology has a post-apocalyptic bookshop, a flooded bookshop, a visit to Bookbarn International, but what shines through is a love for bookshops and reading.
I stood in the bookshop meaning to read the first page, and read the first chapter.
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