Janet Geddis has "a quintessential independent bookstore moment"

Shelf Awareness gives us a nod from Athens bookseller Janet Geddis. Janet writes here at Beyond the Trestle about her serendipitous encounter in Blue Elephant last year:

So here we had an indie bookseller whose shop was pretty new; a soon-to-be indie bookseller whose high school English teacher was in a book club with the existing bookshop owner; a writer whose debut novel ended up being a great read and whose sister is the uber-famous “tween” writer; a local music store owner who’d recommended Blue Elephant Book Shop to me; and his daughter, an avid reader whose favorite author’s sister was standing right. next. to. her.

I have told that story many times myself as an example of the wonderful encounters that make bookselling so entertaining. I always add one detail that Janet omitted; the review of Susan Rebecca White's book was written by my friend Gina Webb . I think these sorts of experiences as being the flip side of six degrees of separation—i.e., six degrees of connection.

—Laura