The longer I work with the public, the less grumpy I find Shaun Bythell and his bookshop diaries. I treated myself to his latest one––Remainders of the Day (2022)––and am reading it in the sunny window of a nearby coffee shop. Two other people in this small café are reading books too—the rest are talking to someone. I’d come here more often, but a cup of tea is four dollars, plus tax—then you throw the change in the tip jar and that’s five bucks gone for a teabag. But once in a while, it's worth it for a sunny window.
I stopped keeping the thrift-store diary, (it was upsetting me too much), but this book does inspire me to keep better record of BOOK’s (my section of the store ). Plenty of material there—and plenty of human behavior to note (complain about).
