Blow-Up in the Bookshop

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry." - Gaston Bachelard

Spooks in the Bookshop

A Week at the Airport A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton

"It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge." - Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness