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user-inactivated · 2882 days ago · link · · parent · post: TIL the woman who started my love affair with reading recently turned 100 - Beverly Cleary, thank you for everything
I think all bookstore owners are eccentrics, though maybe not as much as her. My local used bookstore now is run by an old guy who used to be active in radical politics, won't talk about how, but he knew Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffman and William S Burroughs and gets really, really angry when he talks about J. Edgar Hoover for reasons he likewise won't talk about, his daughter, who I've never heard speak but is a hugger, and a small army of cats.