The Bookman & The Lady On Ohio Edit!

In case you missed it....The Lady is doing a new column for the online arts and literary journal ​Ohio Edit.  
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The column is called Shelf Life: Notes From a Modern-Day Peddler of Books and it's all about books and our adventures bookselling. We are so excited about this, and hope you'll take a look! The first one is up now.

When my husband and I first reveal that we are booksellers, there are a few different responses that we may get. One of the most puzzling ones goes something like this:
It’s really too bad… the person standing across from us will say.
Then he’ll sort of sigh and stare off into the middle distance – perhaps stroking his mustache absently – before continuing, his voice a mixture of superiority and gloomy resignation, a feeling that we are expected to share in, to revel in…
It’s really too bad no one buys books anymore.
It’s a strangely depressing thing for a person to say, especially when talking to someone who has just said that they sell books for a living.


- See more at: http://ohioedit.com/2016/05/24/hi-we-sell-books-for-a-living-by-calixte/#sthash.GGfxbSlR.dpuf