The Age of Reason in the Bookshop

"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values..." - Simone de Beauvoir

The Blazing World in the Bookshop

"Every man should keep minutes of whatever he reads. Every circumstance of his studies should be recorded; what books he has consulted; how much of them he has read; at what times; how often the same authors; and what opinions he formed of them, at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate the history of his mind." - James Boswell