We've been marveling at how owning the book shop has expanded the circle of folks we interact with, and Maile talks about how much she needed that. We also talk about the nature of compensation...are there things you do or would do simply for the love of it, receiving no money in exchange for your time? If Maile isn't making money at the shop, why in the world does she spend so much time there?

Also, Shawn meets a monk in the shop and Sean Dietrich (aka Sean of the South) came to Nooks

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Will the Circle Be Unbroken by Sean Dietrich The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary Schmidt The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis Wintering by Katherine May A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer The Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

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