The Diary of a Bookseller: Shaun Bythell (Shaun Bythell, 1)

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a b Attard, Isabelle (1 January 2016). "Vive Anne Frank, vive le Domaine Public"[Long live Anne Frank, long live the Public Domain] (in French) . Retrieved 8 July 2019. The files are available in TXT and ePub format. Outspoken, hilarious and thought-provoking . . . It’s the best inducement I’ve ever come across to set aside my occasional flirtation with e-readers, walk into a bookstore and get my hands on the real thing.” — BOOKREPORTER For anyone who has ever dreamed of owning a bookstore. Bythell’s hilarious account will have those in the industry crying and those otherwise employed dropping their resume off at their local indie.” — THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

a b "Anne Frank's birthday on theme of diary's 70th anniversary". Anne Frank House. 12 June 2012 . Retrieved 29 April 2014. Here are several passages that I bookmarked….hope you enjoy like I did! And these are not uncommon but rather the tip of the iceberg…he has many funny things to say as well as interesting things. I almost felt like I was in the bookstore (actually he had pictures of the bookstore and it was a prototypic charming second-hand bookstore with books and bookcases galore and the cat (every used bookstore worth its salt must have a cat! 😊 ). Bythell writes with biting humor . . . [He] is a man on a mission, and a year seen through his eyes convinces the reader that it is a mission worthy of undertaking.” — THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

However, I gotta say that the short diary entries were a heaven-send as my focus was absolutely terrible the week I was reading this, so a diary format that I could I dip in and out of suited my attention span. In May 2018, Frank van Vree, the director of the Niod Institute along with others, discovered some unseen excerpts from the diary that Anne had previously covered up with a piece of brown paper. The excerpts discuss sexuality, prostitution, and also include jokes Anne herself described as "dirty" that she heard from the other residents of the Secret Annex and elsewhere. Van Vree said "anyone who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile", before adding, "the 'dirty' jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all an ordinary girl". [57] Reception [ edit ] Facsimile of the diary of Anne Frank on display at the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin, Germany Anne had expressed the desire in the rewritten introduction of her diary for one person that she could call her truest friend, that is, a person to whom she could confide her deepest thoughts and feelings. She observed that she had many "friends" and equally many admirers, but (by her own definition) no true, dear friend with whom she could share her innermost thoughts. She originally thought her girl friend Jacque van Maarsen would be this person, but that was only partially successful. In an early diary passage, she remarks that she is not in love with Helmut "Hello" Silberberg, her suitor at that time, but considered that he might become a true friend. In hiding, she invested much time and effort into her budding romance with Peter van Pels, thinking he might evolve into that one, true friend, but that was eventually a disappointment to her in some ways, also, though she still cared for him very much. Ultimately, it was only to Kitty that she entrusted her innermost thoughts.

a whistling customer with a ponytail and what I can only assume was a hat he’d borrowed from a clown bought a copy of Paolo Coelho’s The Alchemist, I suspect deliberately to undermine my faith in humanity and dampen my spirits further. The survey of her manuscripts compared an unabridged transcription of Anne Frank's original notebooks with the entries she expanded and clarified on loose paper in a rewritten form and the final edit as it was prepared for the English translation. The investigation revealed that all of the entries in the published version were accurate transcriptions of manuscript entries in Anne Frank's handwriting, and that they represented approximately a third of the material collected for the initial publication. The magnitude of edits to the text is comparable to other historical diaries such as those of Katherine Mansfield, Anaïs Nin and Leo Tolstoy in that the authors revised their diaries after the initial draft, and the material was posthumously edited into a publishable manuscript by their respective executors, only to be superseded in later decades by unexpurgated editions prepared by scholars. [78] In 2013, a similar controversy arose in a 7th grade setting in Northville, Michigan, focusing on explicit passages about sexuality. [72] The mother behind the formal complaint referred to portions of the book as "pretty pornographic." [73]An elderly customer told me that her book club’s next book was Dracula, but she couldn’t remember what he’d written.” Really bookish people are a rarity, although there are vast numbers of those who consider themselves to be such. The latter are particularly easy to identify – often they will introduce themselves when they enter the shop as ‘book people’ and insist on telling you that ‘we love books’. They’ll wear T-shirts or carry bags with slogans explaining exactly how much they think they adore books, but the surest means of identifying them is that they never, ever buy books. The nature of Holocaust denial: What is Holocaust denial?", JPR Report, 3, 2000, archived from the original on 18 July 2011 ; Prose, Francine (2009). Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. New York: Harper. pp. 239–249. ISBN 978-0061430794. Memories Mean More to Us than Anything Else: Remembering Anne Frank's Diary in the 21st century" by Pinaki Roy, The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly ( ISSN 0972-3269; ISBN 978-8126910571), New Delhi, [1] 9(3), July–September 2008: 11–25. The Beauty That Still Remains, choral work by Marcus Paus based on Frank's diary and written for the official 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Norway