📝 What is Shopkeeping about?:
Beloved bookseller, Peter Miller, who has run a design bookshop in Seattle for four decades, writes about the journey of shopkeeping. This essay collection captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community. By the end, you can’t help wanting to own a shop.
📚 Genre: Personal Memoir & retail industry
🎧 Format: E-Book
💞 Feels: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I enjoyed the way this book made me feel. I finished reading the book and I was so inspired to get started with my bookshop. To get into the every day drama and mundaneness of shopkeeping. To become a character within a neighborhood and form community with other shops on the street. It made me impatient to get to sell books and help people find their next great read, maybe even become their favorite place to hang out for game nights and book signings.
I can see myself coming back to this book as a reference when I’m in need of advice. Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller is very reminiscent of the lessons I’m learning from my Basic Bookselling course professors (professional booksellers during the day).
Peter Miller’s writing style is so approachable. He’s not talking down to the reader about his vast knowledge (40+ years!!), he’s walking alongside us and hand selling shopkeeping life. Letting us get a feel for if this life is for us…and if it wasn’t at the beginning of the book, it definitely will be by the end. Suddenly you’ll be strolling by vacant spaces and daydreaming about what your store could be.
✅ Spinoff novella nomination: n/a
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