The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

He was born and raised in San Jose about the same time my mother was growing up in the Bay Area. It is part memoir and part love letter to books and the publishing industry. I borrowed The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop from a dear friend and savored the experience of reading it over the course of a week. Yoko Writes Her Name by Rebecca Wells library book The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon library book The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee bookcrossing The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield bookcrossing Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss bookcrossing Sooner or Later or Never Never by Gary Jennings personal collection The Shipwreck of a Nation by H Peter Nennhaus review copy The Publishing Game: Publish a Book in 30 Days by Fern Reiss bookcrossing Project Anastrophe by George Karnikis review copy Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper library book Oh, the Things I Know! by Al Franken bookcrossing Mama, Don't Go by Rebecca Wells library book The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh bookcrossing I Feel Skitty by Tracey West personal collection Harriet's Recital by Nancy Carlton personal collection Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them by Rolfe Cobleigh bookcrossing Grumpy Cat by Britta Teckentrup personal collection Grimm's Grimmest by Tracy Arah Dockray bookcrossing Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat bookcrossing The Cat Barked? by Lydia Monks library bookĬat Skidoo by Bethany Roberts and RW Alley personal collectionĬity Above the Sea by Stephen Alan Saft review copyĬity Lullaby by Marilyn Singer library bookĬorona Centurion™ by Terry Bisson personal collectionĮconomancer by Carolyn Ives Gilman personal collectionĪ Field Guide to Monsters by Johan Olander library book I'm sure that anybody who likes books at all would like it.Adaptogenia by Wayne Wightman personal collectionĪnd Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell library book I enjoyed every page of this book and read it very quickly. Not surprisingly, he's worked not just as a bookstore employee but as a publisher's representative, and he has interesting stories about what that life is like, too. Along the way he covers the history of books as we know them and of the vendors, stalls, and stores that sell them. He has much to share with other booklovers about how bookstores are run, and what it was to work in one (and is still, for a lucky few). He seems (like me) always to have been in love with books: not just with particular books, or with the pleasures that reading books can bring, but with the very idea of books, not to mention with their feel, their look, their smell. Buzbee started his career in the last great bookstore age, when the tech nerds busy creating the modern Internet depended on print books just as everybody else did. This delightful little book is part memoir, part history, and part gentle polemic.