"OMG, this summer has been INSANE. Nobody ever tells you about the meetings with the accountant and the paperwork and the fights with the network printers: 'What do you mean it's not there?!?!?!? I'm looking right AT IT!!!' when you dream of being a bookseller. Somebody let me up for air!!
"And the basement's flooded. Just lettin' you know. And it hasn't even started raining yet!!!
"You know what's awesome about this? I could be having all these problems doing some other job or even in my own household duties and there might not be books there to make it all (mostly) better."
--Kelly Justice, owner of Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, Va., in the intro to her shop's e-newsletter