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Article published 1st Jan 08

Product: Books
Anatomy: Brain

Usually when you hear a bookstore owner compared to a lion, it's a bad thing. Mark Rubbo is more of a Wizard of Oz type of lion, only not so cowardly, or an Aslan sort of character, only not so Jesus-like. Forty-year-old Readings is the Bruce Willis of bookshops - weathered, dependable and good in a crisis.

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