open a bilingual bookshop café for poets and philosophers to meet

my half day stint in the sort-of-bookshop (charity shop) today. I thought I would be disappointed by what people bought – noooo I was more disappointed by what people brought in. Wow, if I’d known everyone was reading Grisham paperbacks and Sidney Sheldon hardbacks and Chick-Lit…maybe they just hang on to the good stuff.

Still, it didn’t put me off at all. I still love books and even overcame a big fear…I put books in the trash. Yay! Go me, the book-hoarder, I did it!

And whoops, I seem to have accumulated another thirty or so books to read and house. But I love them already, and think that they deserve good homes. There is little hope for me…I want to do this more than ever :)

with the singing goal and the passport goal nearly done, I’m feeling really positive about this one – the BIG one.

Which poets and philosophers would I want to have in my bookshop? Why would they even come to my bookshop? Had an idea with a friend in this great bar at Oberkampf which had old sofas and a quiet backroom in it, that there could be some kind of bonus in bringing in a book when you go to your local café – like you get a free drink or you can take a book in exchange or something.

Next Wednesday I’m going to get the chance to work in a sort of bookshop for a day. Can’t wait to see what people buy. Hope it’s not going to be horribly depressing.

This is one goal I never tire of thinking about. How hard can it be?

oh oh oh

http://www.librarything.com/

i’m doomed. I so want to do this. Stop me somebody…!
I have to have the bookshop first so I could justify spending time. I wonder if I could block that website from any computer I have access to. Aargh this is like nicotine craving.

would be just to live in a nice little shackledy-downplace with books lining the walls, every one of which I knew intimately in one way or another, and in which poets and philosphers just dropped in when I needed them to.

And pay bills too, if possible.

philosophical bookshoppy talk tongight. And I’m very pissed. I think this took me half an hour to write.

nothing to do with books, computers or writing, but a really groovy one all the same. Then I could make just enough money and have my unprofitable but lovely bookshop.

hmm. Don’t you find Sunday nights bring out the most potentially lucrative of creative ideas? Can’t think why that would be.

weirdos in my life.

to do this. Apparently there isn’t that much paper work involved, cos it’s all cash. And apparently you need a big store room so you can rotate the books, so that’s good to know now.

And a database of my books using ruby on rails would be heaven.

I’m going to meet a bookshop owner turned programmer.
I bet he’s going to tell me why it’s better being a programmer than a bookshop owner. I have to get my mental shield in place!

I want to have a bookshop!

Even if I hate it!

want to spin off a mailing saying ‘hey subscriptions, you’re the best?’. After a really busy day, you just go log on the 43things and see what all your subscriptions have been up to because that’s your nice reading for the day? A place you feel really good?

Well. That’s what I want in my bookstore. A place where you feel good reading and being with great interesting people! So I think you would have to have a zeitgeist. That would be a corner of the bookshop (I think it’s going to have to have a lot of corners) where you put the books that are fresh in, and you haven’t had time to read, but whose titles inspire you to read them. You could tell by the number of sales on those books which sort of books to sell in the store. you could also mess with the zeitgeist shelf, he he.

But what if those books were bad? No, I could only sell good books.

Argh! Bookstores sound so complicated. I need to study full time bookshopping (no, that’s not right, i already do that), bookkeeping (no, that’s accountancy), bookshop-having (best i can do, it’s late) until I will know whether I can do this. OK. I’m going to STUDY hvaing a second hand bookshop. I’m sure the poets and the philosophers will be the easy bit.