there is a lovely chill in the air and everything is so beautiful and today I
thought I would take you along to a Saturday at my Bookshop where I work on the weekend
I've
settled into my job and usually begin the day with my co-worker and dear friend tidying up
and making sure everything is ready for opening I then may work on putting the
back stock out on the shelves alphabetizing and making sure that everything is updated
I may spend time cleaning dust away and of course chatting with customers about
books I actually don't have time to read while working here however sometimes when
no one is in the shop and it's a quiet winter evening and all my duties are
done for the day I have been known to read a page or two but that's a secret
I am not very good at alphabetizing and doing certain things but I am learning
and getting better with time usually by the end of the day my feet are a bit sore but
I always find it enjoyable to spend time in the company of books and my lovely co-worker
but by the evening I'm on my way home again often with a new book or two as
we do have access to a lot of free books which is a wonderful benefit of the job
so I spent the evening customizing these books that I want to hopefully give as Christmas gifts
so there is a fun idea for you if you like to gift books but you would like to add something
a little more personal of course I looked at photos online of entire murals that are put on
these books sometimes that are extremely detailed and just beautiful and I knew I
wouldn't have time to do something that detailed I also suspect that getting the proper type of
paints to do highly detailed work like that could be quite expensive so I thought that
perhaps you'd be inspired by this more simple version of it that's quite inexpensive and it's
just using gel pens or gel markers and with a delicate touch you can get quite adorable
results even though they might not be quite as sophisticated one thing I love is that if you
open the book you can write a little message in the pages that then and it disappears once you
close the book and so the reader will only get that very personal message from you once they
open the book I definitely recommend picking up a few books that are used or very inexpensive that
you can practice on before you try to customize one of your favorite books with all that being
said I hope you enjoyed this little video I did want to share a little bit of an update of what
it's like to work at my bookstore I have really settled in over the last several months and the
first time I made a very similar video I had only just started at the bookstore and so I have a lot
more responsibilities now and other things that I have learned so I just wanted to kind of share an
update on that but yes I was looking at my old video I'll link it down below about working at
a bookstore when I first started working there and I remember saying that I got um paid 14 an
hour and the average paperback book with my employee discount is about fourteen dollars
so I was pretty much just recycling my paycheck back into the store that is still very true
I am quite at peace with being a book collector because I do not prioritize kind of brand new
books which would be quite expensive I love to buy used books Advanced readers copies
that I get as a Bookseller also just you know any sort of thrifted or you know kind of older book
if you do keep track of my videos you'll know that I was Ill last month and I did start
reading uh Shady Hollow so if you do like cozy Mysteries this is a murder mystery so you know
do with that what you will but reading the rest of the series
I really liked the second two books a lot more than the first so I think that they improved
drastically with time and the very last book which was Mirror Lake was definitely my favorite
if you don't know why I was attracted to this book in this series you're probably
new to this channel so put a Whimsical Woodland town full of anthropomorphic animals and outfits
with personalities um in the middle of this kind of little enchanted forest in a Perpetual Autumn
season that is that is what I live for so of course after finishing those books I still
wanted to read books with talking animals and so I did ReDiscover an old favorite that I read as
a child and they are the cottage Tales they do have talking animals and of course they have a
heroine based off of the real life Beatrix Potter and I thought they were just lovely and probably
exactly what I want to read this Autumn thankfully each one of them was about 75 cents to a dollar
because they're quite old and I could only find them used so I'm looking forward to reading these
as well I always feel kind of funny saying that I enjoy these mystery books because many of them
do involve some kind of gruesome moments in them reading a cozy Mysteries kind of feels
like a stage play you know it's not realistic you know it's not like true crime or a mystery that
actually puts you on the edge of your seat you know it's more about the Ambiance and the seasonal
aspect usually they're based on a season or have a theme I've had some customers at the bookstore
refer to them as old lady books and I love it because there are many older women who have come
in and referred to them as their old lady book because it's just embracing what you like and
knowing it might be perceived as a guilty pleasure there is a very eccentric and Whimsical old lady
in my heart that I will hopefully one day become and I'm looking forward to starting early with my
obsession with cozy Mysteries but yes I definitely have been enjoying my time at the bookstore if
this is not the first job I had at a bookstore I used to work at a bookstore in my old University
City and that one was much larger than this one so that was you know a different experience as
well I do really enjoy talking to customers about books and book recommendations particularly when
they're in the genres that I love to read like adult fantasy it is of course a customer service
job so that aspect of it you know can always be overwhelming and exhausting at times so I know
it is definitely not for everyone and for some people it really burns them out I wanted to say
really quick that I did restock my little print of my mushroom bunny you can only handle a small
amount of orders on my Etsy shop as I am doing all the orders myself so I really do appreciate
your understanding that I do often have to close my shop I was able to restock my little bunny for
at least a little while and I wanted to let all of you know who we're interested and I really
absolutely appreciate the support it means the world let me know what you're reading this October
and I am sending all of you my love please take care of yourselves and I will see you very soon