The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure (Hardcover) by Wendy Welch

from witchyrichy

I get out to Southwest Virginia at least once a year but never made it to the bookstore at Big Stone Gap. Sadly, it was sold this summer and will revert to a private home. Wendy Welch's memoir of opening and operating the bookstore was an honest and loving tale of the challenges of moving into a ...

from MargaretPinardAuthor

Lots of great insights, lots of funny and heartwarming stories, as one would expect from an ethnographer cataloguing her experience setting up shop in an insular Southern mountain town.Around the Reading Rekindled chapter though, it seemed to drag a bit and thereafter started swooping in and out ...

from UberButter

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch ★ ★ ★ ★I have been on quite the book slump the last couple months. I am happy to say that I have finally found a book to help me get out of this slump! Wendy and her h...

from amandamay83

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book through First Reads. All opinions are my own.This was an enjoyable, easy read. It made me want to run down to my own local used bookstore and buy a huge pile of books. (Nevermind the piles I already have to read.) The stories of their customers both...

from bookswoman

True story of a husband and wife who open a "used book" bookstore in a small town in the Appalachians. Wendy chronicles the ups and downs of starting anew in a town neither knew before and where no one knows them. There is suspicion and distrust to overcome. Some of the best pieces are about the ...