It just feels like such a crazy gap of time between when I had that memory and I wrote about it, to being on stage and seeing someone else sharing that feeling with me
And many of the good independent bookshops in Scotland are places where, I know Lighthouse Books in Edinburgh are helping people who are homeless register to vote in the upcoming general election, and they were offering that as a service, and in the absence of those services being provided by libraries, often independent bookshops can become the place where people can come and ask for advice on how to find information, come for a place to relax and have a coffee and read a book, and it's not necessarily as driven on sales, obviously, fundamentally it is, but the atmosphere of being an open and warm space
"Amy Adams: punching above her weight"
"Sponging" the walls and ceiling is a tedious job and takes arm and shoulder strength
It was first pulled from a pack of Sweet Caporal Cigarettes in the early 1900s by a New York kid, Morton Bernstein