So, readers may be asking, where's the "bookstore" aspect of the Manic Bookstore Cafe? I just found a link to my Bunin and Butter post on Christian Book Barn.com (go figure!). But it is one thing to comment on literature as a "professional," and something else entirely to disappear into books the way I did as a kid, as an "amateur," the way I try to do every summer (and holiday break, if I can manage it). A really good bookstore manager would have opinions about all kinds of books. My interest these days runs almost exclusively to contemporary fiction. When my kids were smaller, I manically read YA fiction in the summer -- Jeanne Birdsall's trilogy starting with The Penderwicks , or Hilary McKay's Casson Family series, or even Harry Potter (to keep up with my son). But now my daughter has moved on to Jane Austen, my son is reading history and re-reading The Iliad most weeks, and I am on my own. So, what to read? A great way to dive i...
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