Comments on: Love Letter To A Bookshop https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: dandeliongirl01 https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-669 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:33:15 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-669 This left me a little teary-eyed and wanting to run straight down to my local bookshop. My children get so excited at the £1 book tokens they get from school. We spend hours in waterstones, each child trying to choose which book it will be used on. And we might come home with a few extra..shhhh.

]]> By: juliathorley https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-668 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:31:50 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-668 Beautiful. I don’t suppose you can remember what you bought?

]]> By: Notesfromthechair https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-667 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:51:26 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-667 So deserved! And this little piece brought a tear to my eye.

]]> By: cognitivelimitations https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-666 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:58:18 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-666 Well deserved . It is a fantastic read. My favourite of the year.

Best regards

Steve Asher (a fan!)

Sent from my iPhone

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]]> By: John Taylor https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-665 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:52:59 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-665 Jo, this was me too! Our little local library had a tiny children’s section, and I soon had to order in books: they were very patient with my many order forms! But the power of a book token! Now, every time I go to Cardiff, I drop into Wellfield Road Bookshop, where I discovered that children were allowed to buy adult books as well. Where I discovered people like J G Ballard and Ray Bradbury who expanded a twelve-year-old’s mind. And Paul Gallico and Daphne DuMaurier who made me cry. Local bookshops matter!

]]> By: Julie Cordiner https://joannacannon.com/2016/10/06/love-letter-to-a-bookshop/#comment-664 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:34:23 +0000 http://joannacannon.com/?p=678#comment-664 As always, you capture the essence of the issue so precisely and beautifully. I have tears in my eyes from reading your last two paragraphs. Books were my escape from a difficult childhood and it was my English teacher who told me I should go to university. ‘What’s university?’ I said, but took her advice and never looked back. I’m afraid I switched to Classics, though there was plenty of literature there. All authors should appreciate the power their words have to inspire and excite. It’s putting the right words in the right order that’s the challenge!

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