I was looking for a book for my grandmother, who reads nonstop but I had no idea what to pick — Aliya asked about the last three books she'd loved and found her Petrosyan's 'The Grey House' in about ten minutes, with a note on why it would work.

Ordered a rare Murakami edition from the book club shelf on Kurmangazy — they quoted 3-5 days, it arrived on day four, and they called right away even though I never asked for a reminder.

My son wouldn't read anything at all until the bookseller figured out he's a dinosaur fan and pulled three non-fiction atlases instead of another fairy tale — now he reads them on his own, no reminders needed.

I went to a Thursday book club meeting expecting everyone to sound overly clever, and instead got a warm discussion with tea and zero spoilers in the first fifteen minutes.