tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post6630153412126286278..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Bookshops and Teenagers Anne CassidyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-13280682861888202522008-09-26T19:08:00.000+01:002008-09-26T19:08:00.000+01:00Now you're beginning to understand why I offer my ...Now you're beginning to understand why I offer my books for free - and somebody is taking them off the shelf, i.e. downloading them, quite often. If I could only figure out how to get an old age pension out of it all ...Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22505288559791133592008-09-26T14:28:00.000+01:002008-09-26T14:28:00.000+01:00Did I used to buy books as a teenager? I think I u...Did I used to buy books as a teenager? I think I used to get most of my reading matter out of libraries or given as Christmas presents. I remember the rush of extravegant joy buying seven books to take on my gap year, but I think my mum bought them for me. Our local library is always packed with kids, though.<BR/><BR/>I was once in a lift in a bookshop with a small girl clutching a copy of my book. I poked my boyfriend excitedly and made surreptitious ecstatic 'My book! My book!' eyebrow motions to the child. He stared straight ahead in a 'If you reveal your secret author identity in a lift, I will melt into a small embarrassed pool of goo,' sort of way. So I didn't.<BR/><BR/>T'was very exciting, though.Sally Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17022981347132511812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90820849839713925742008-09-26T12:07:00.000+01:002008-09-26T12:07:00.000+01:00I've been saying for more than 30 years that teena...I've been saying for more than 30 years that teenage books ought to be stocked in music shops like HMV. Or in clothes shops like Topshop. In Japan, apparently, teenagers get their reading matter sent straight to their mobiles and can manage to read whole novels on them. You need the youthful EYESIGHT for that. It sounds ghastly to me!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-78012848943126185772008-09-25T23:36:00.000+01:002008-09-25T23:36:00.000+01:00In Bath at the weekends it can be quite hard to GE...In Bath at the weekends it can be quite hard to GET to the teenage shelves - and there are lots of young people as well as adults crowding round them. My teenager buys books...but he's a boy!Marie-Louise Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006940874591015786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-15376213599252888892008-09-25T23:34:00.000+01:002008-09-25T23:34:00.000+01:00Oh! Why couldn't she have bought it... I'd have be...Oh! Why couldn't she have bought it... I'd have been sending "buy it! buy it! buy it" messages to her telepathically.<BR/><BR/>I bought Celia Rees's most recent book, because I wanted to see what she did with the Sovay ballad--but I haven't read it yet (annnd... I'm a far cry from a teenager)<BR/><BR/>My teenaged daughters do buy books, but mainly manga... though the younger one also has a penchant for unabridged classics (and then I get to read them too..)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com