Meet the Bookseller - Jane - Sunshine Personified

If you have ever visited our Once and Future location, you will definitely know Jane!  If you have not visited our secondhand book store, you should.  Jane will send you home with your next "best read". 

Describe what you do at RD books in 6 words.

Book Buyer and bookseller

What was the last book you read that you loved?

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura David

What was a book you read on a recommendation from someone else that you wouldn’t have picked up otherwise?

Name of the Wind by Phillip Rothfuss

Favorite reading spot?

Living room couch corner with the sun shining in.

Book you re-read every year?

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

Favorite part about working at the store?

I get to talk about books all day!  Handselling books, connecting people with books that they love and enjoy.

Do you have any good author stories? 

George RR Martin’s writing had been heavily influenced by Frank Yerby (and I LUV LUV LUV Frank Yerby)!

How did you come to Rediscovered Books?

Hired for Once and Future Books in October 2018.

What is something unique to you that you would like people to know?

I am always curious.

What are four of your all time favorite books?

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

Finlay Donovan is Killing it/Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead by Elle Cosimano

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

Killing View by Roy Johansen (my new favorite)