Sometimes I feel like the bookselling day is just one long version of Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. This is a book I’m sure you’re familiar with, but just in case you have recently arrived in the United States from a country that hasn’t yet translated it, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie follows a little mouse’s long list of requests, each following from the previous one, after receiving a cookie. He asks for a glass of milk, then wants to see his milk mustache in a mirror, then needs some scissors to give his fur a trim, and so on. Just one thing after another, leaving a trail of partially-finished tasks and a bit of a mess behind. This is EXACTLY what running a bookstore is like. And so … I present:
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