At first, I expected a very witty, very funny book. Maybe I'd exaggerated it in my mind, basing my pre-opinions on the cover blurb. While reading I felt ambiguous because it's not a bad book and it's easy to read; the narrator's problems are real, established in a simple manner, something like "well, it is what it is, we need to do what we can". The book was definitely interesting to me given it's about selling books. At the same time, I couldn't see where it's witty or sharp, and that create a strange division in my perception of the book.
Then I realised that I had a wrong approach. I opened the book, expecting a funny fictional novel about a bookseller who's trying to keep up with his shop and having lots of interesting encounters. Instead, I got a warm and leisurely-paced Truth about this difficult business, told in a spot-on manner, seen with a sharp eye of a writer who knows his job.
That's why it's so enrapturing to me, even if I don't always see the humour: it's just realistic to the bones, and that strucks a chord.
All in all, it was an interesting read, full of insides of the work and book trade in another country. I wasn't so sure at the beginning, but the story has grown on me.

Reading about the British monarchy in always interesting because it's so different from the rest of the world, especially if you live in a democratic country whose last king abdicated in the 18th century. I'm sure I didn't understand the nuances described in the biography, but it surely provided me some kind of overview of the British history from the Buckingham palace's perspective. For a reader with a basic knowledge of Britain's history, it's a good book to try to understand what is the British monarchy today and why. For a reader from other country, though, the translation lacked additional explanation sometimes. All in all, I feel this is a good point to start exploring the history et al of British monarchy.