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Used and Rare Book Shop Anchors Downtown Trenton Revival Eric Maywar of Classic Book Shop in downtown Trenton, NJ. Reversing the trend of book shop closings in general and in downtown urban districts in particular that Book Patrol has been following, the Classic Book Shop, on Warren Street in downtown Trenton, NJ, is playing an important role in the area’s renaissance. Classic owner, Eric Maywar, who owned another book shop in a nearby town, was a... Submitted: on 11th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Book Shop · Classic BookJames Livingston: Review of Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work Source: Special to HNN (12-11-09) An excerpt from this quietly beautiful and deeply reactionary book has already appeared in the New York Times Magazine. The publisher, Penguin, stands ready to sell a million, even though the modest, “inconspicuously fit” author resisted a book tour, preferring instead to get back to the motorcycle repair shop he runs near Richmond, Virginia. Doe... Submitted: on 11th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Author · Excerpt · James · Magazine · Matthew B. Crawford · Publisher · Ready · Review · Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work · The PublisherBookselling on a Saturday, meditations on weekend labor in a grammatically suspect, run-on-sentency- postmodern- meanderation Most people, when prompted to comment on my line of work, and the hours that I generally keep, tend to squirm when they hear that I work on the weekends. I understand why they think that this is a travesty, but I want to take a moment to draw a sketch of why book selling on a Saturday in Brookline is the best time to work. ((If you've ever worked in a coffee shop, or cookie shop, deli, or the... Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · When · Cookie · Meditations · WhenA trio of Australian finds I didn't have any intention of buying books yesterday, but when I walked past my local Oxfam shop I popped in for a look and was delighted to discover three Australian novels on the shelves. I'm convinced that there's a book-loving expat Australian living in my midst, because I've discovered some good Australian literature in this shop on several occasions in the past. Long may... Submitted: 2 days ago Tags: · shelves · The · When · Buying Books · Delighted · Literature · Living · Novels · Thebookshops worth a visit - Mr B's, Bath In my second part of recollections about great bookshops in bath have to mention Mr B's which has a fantastic selection, great vibe and a shop that you will not forget with its quirky design touches. I could have happily gone bankrupt in this shop. Submitted: on 15th Feb 2010 Tags: · design · BookshopsI Pledge... Because blogs are not long enough.... Elizabeth Dye is a designer who creates "handmade and independently designed wedding and party dresses." She has a shop, The English Dept. in Portland, an Etsy Shop, and a blog where you can see her creations. This filmy, romantic dream of a dress is called Persuasion. Jane Austen would have loved it. Anyway, Elizabeth's blog is where I found... Submitted: on 5th Feb 2010 Tags: · blog · The · Where · Blogs · Elizabeth · Jane Austen · Persuasion · Romantic · WeddingMotif for Murder - Book Review Motif for Murder (A Scrapbooking mystery) by Laura Childs Berkeley Prime Crime Books 2006 For those of you like scrapbooking and have not heard of Laura Childs - well you are in for a treat. Laura Childs is the author of 3 mystery series. One of these series stars amateur detective, Carmela Bertrand. Carmela owns a scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The shop is called Memory M... Submitted: on 26th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Author · Book Review · Crime · Crime Books · Mystery · Mystery Series · TheSeventy Times Seven In Seventy Times Seven, Brad learns a lesson about forgiveness. When the ball he hits breaks the window of the local ice cream shop, the shop owner, Mr. Jeffries, readily forgives the accident. He tells Brad not to worry about the broken window as he was going to put in a new one soon anyway. But, when Brad’s friend, Doug, returns Brad’s favorite baseball hat, it has been chewed up by ... Submitted: on 20th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Up · When · Broken · Ice · UpMargaret's Print Shop: A Novel of the Anabaptist Reformation Margaret's Print Shop: A Novel of the Anabaptist Reformation, by Elwood E. Yoder, is a historical novel about the Anabaptist Reformation. This story is set in sixteenth century Strasbourg, Germany. In that time, Strasbourg was a German city although it is now a part of France. Twenty-eight year old Margaret was a printer who was very sympathetic to the message of the Anabaptists. She was very... Submitted: on 3rd Mar 2010 Tags: · print · The · Historical Novel · print · StoryPark Barnitz. Book of Jade 2 I have had two bad experiences with this jinxed book. First I bought a copy of the Durtro limited edition reprint from a shop I had dropped into whilst bookbuying in America, one of those shops where hardly anything is priced. Before the web they let the pencil write the price unless it was obviously valuable in which case price guides and book auction records came out, later on a CD Rom was spun ... Submitted: on 23rd Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Where · And Book · Edition · Jinxed · Unless · Write