올해 초 대구에서 영풍문고 대백점, 반디앤루니스 신세계 대구점이 영업을 종료했다. 두 서점 관계자 모두 "코로나로 인한 매출 감소"를 원인으로 꼽았다. 북구 산격동 책방 뷰티인사이드의 지민준 대표는 "대형서점 폐업으로 책 읽을 기회가 점점 줄어들 수 있다"고 우려했다. 한편 대형서점 폐업 아래에서 코로나의 직.
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Not many people read books in Pakistan. How then are the bookshops coping with the pandemic?
Paradoxically, however, the small market for books may actually have been growing before the virus struck. Liberty Books, Lahore.
I hoard books like old desi aunties hoard bobby pins. A visit to any of Pakistan’s top bookstores – whether it is Reading’s, Liberty, The Last Word, Vanguard or Variety – ends with me walking to the check-out counter with a heap of books, heavier than a boulder and more expensive than a week’s groceries.
My daughter, on the other hand, is all about minimalism. Her stock usually comes from Reading’s online store and then she only buys what she’s sure to read. She stares at my receipt at the bookstore check-out counter and rolls her eyes at me. “Liberty Books is 30% off for the World Book Day sale online.” She says.
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he third season of Motherland starts as it means to go on: with an âabsolute nitshowâ. As an official arrives to brief parents at the state primary school, every unravelling mother in the land will wish she didnât recognise herself. The nit expert urges parents to comply with the guidelines: âCombing ⦠shampooing ⦠combing again,â which is only marginally less laughable than the governmentâs âstay alertâ slogan it is satirising. But it is not too soon for the pandemic to get the Motherland treatment â if it came in a bottle, it would look, smell and perform precisely like nit shampoo.
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Tracy Beaker was a cultural reset and there is no doubt that it provided us with some of the highest quality outfits. Take it from someone who loved dressing up as Tracy Beaker on World Book Day every single year.
The entire cast had a strong taste in fashion. The whole y2k aesthetic was laid on strong, from Elaine Boyak’s pastel lip gloss collection to Justine Littlewood’s tie dye obsession – the character wardrobes slapped.