Chapter 4: Sarah Ramsey on beating book blame with brilliant bookselling

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Sarah in front of Book City

Welcome to the first chapter of 3 Books recorded live in an open bookstore!

Book City is in the heart of Toronto's beautiful Bloor West Village neighborhood and that's where I settled into the children's section to talk blame, beauty, and growth with my favorite bookseller in the world -- the one and only Sarah Ramsey (@theprintednerd).  

Outside Book City in Bloor West Village

I love Sarah because she takes the art of bookselling seriously and seemingly reads people’s minds to find the exact book they need to help them grow. As we always say: Humans are the best algorithm.

Listen in to hear us touch on themes of beauty, loss, and honoring ones we love... 

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What You'll Learn:

• What makes a great bookseller?

• Who owns grief after loss?

• How do you honor a life through storytelling?

• What Judy Blume book is the first to appear on 3 Books?

• What is one of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard involving marital guilt, shame, and Kindles?

• Why are humans the best algorithms?

• How can books transcend generations?

• What memoir helped invent the category -- and have we "over-memoired" ourselves?

• Why can you judge a book by its cover?

notable quotes from sarah ramsey:

"If you can get a kid interested in reading when they're very young, you've made a reader for life." @theprintednerd #3bookspodcast

"Life is too short to be reading a book that you're not enjoying." @theprintednerd #3bookspodcast

"No one should ever say to you 'here's a guilty pleasure for you to read.' You should never feel guilty about what you want to read." @theprintednerd #3bookspodcast

CONNECT With SARAH:

• Book City Toronto

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Facebook

word of the chapter: 

• chutzpah

Resources Mentioned:

• Sarah's first book [18:10]

• Sarah's second book [29:30]

• Sarah's third book [46:44]

• The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha

• Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.

• Book City in Bloor West Village

• Sydney Writers’ Festival

• Jaipur Literature Festival

• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• Jonathan Franzen

• Totsapalooza

• Awesome is Everywhere by Neil Pasricha

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Vietnam War

• Dickon Sowerby

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Bradbury Press

• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

• Superfudge by Judy Blume

• Fudge-a-mania by Judy Blume

• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

• Bust Magazine

• Houghton Mifflin

• Ewing sarcoma

• Lucy Grealy NYT Article

• Hijacked by Grief - The Guardian article by Suellen Grealy

• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

• The Problem With Memoirs - NYT article by Neil Genzlinger

• The 3 A’s of Awesome TED Talk by Neil Pasricha

• Publishing Genius

• Penguin Random House

• Seasonal affective disorder

• The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin

• Candide by Voltaire

• 8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year - HBR article by Neil Pasricha

• Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

• Spike Jonze

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Machado

• Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin

• City Lights Book Store

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Jack Kerouac

• Elan Mastai

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

• The Vegetarian by Kang Han

• Haruki Murakami

• Fantastisch by Neil Pasricha

• Sloan

• Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca

• The Odyssey by Homer

• Emily Wilson (first woman to translate Odyssey into English)

• Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

• The Blue Lobster by Robin Taylor-Chiarello

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