The shop around the corner

Do any of you remember “You’ve Got Mail” from the last century?  You remember, before Meg Ryan decided she wanted to look like Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of Batman’s arch-enemy, The Joker.  Why the hell? I digress… The movie.  I watched it with my daughter a few weeks back (the things you do for a cuddle) and I found it quite ironic how things have changed.  Remember the Shop Around the Corner,  that quintessential little book store we all used to visit before the big bad Fox Books gobbled it up? Well,  now it’s the big ‘bad’ book store chains that are on the receiving end of that River in South America.

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