European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Wrinkl snakeskin a pet Boa Constrictor Calls around the shoulders of Bookstore owner Gottlieb. Hobbit forming Sherry Gottlieb s Book shop Bojoh Barbour associated Pressw Hen Sherry Gottlieb started Reading the of books As a child she was a goner. Her lather saw no harm in it. He had a Complete set of the Frank Baum classics from his own childhood one by one to put one on Het bed and she devoured them. When the Supply ran out she Wen to the Public Library and consumed All the fairy lairs. All of them today next to a Gas station on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica calrj., Sherry runs whal May be the largest and oldest science fiction Book shop in the world a change of Hobbit after Tolkien s creatures. Sha keeps a colombian Boa Constrictor named wring snakeskin after Rumpelstiltskin As a pet dyes her forelocks purple and generally lives As she pleases consider the Snake for example i m allergic to cats. I live in a second floor apart Mon which in t fair to a dog. Birds Are noisy fish Are Boring and i had t had a pet in six years when somebody introduced me to a Snake. And i said his is wonderful. I m not allergic to it. I can leave it for three weeks at a time without having of feed him. He feels Nice Ond he s wonderful to take 1o parties. I never have to worry about talking to strangers. They All come up and talk to  besides he minds his own business except he does t have a  consider the purple hair. I dyed it about a year ago on my 30-mumble birthday. Why because i can. Since Don t have a Boss or a husband to Tell me i can to i have the Freedom to have a Tattoo or have my hair dyed  Here in her one floor establishment she has 75,000 saturday. September 20, 1986 books and 1,800 Square feet of floor space which Sha fills when the likes of on Arthur c Clarke Como to autograph books. She hosts important science fiction writers about 15 times a year How did she gel from a to Here no by the whirlwind Hal two often than not lands one in Kansas she attended the University of California. Berkeley Between to free speech movement and people s Park. My olfactory memories of the 60s were the smelt of tear Gas when she graduated Wilh a Bachelor s degree m theater Aris playwriting the Only jobs she could got wore As a Secretary or a Wail Ross she gave in to Iho secretarial Side in a film rental Library. Women s liberation was just Blooming and after two years my mid began to rot  " i quit my Job and my then husband said. Well what Are you going to do now 1 and there was some worry in his voice because to was at Iho University of Southern California in film school i said i m going to Road science Clion until i Din of of Money and then i m going to worry about it " she said she wished there was a science fiction Bookstore in los Angeles like the world s oldest and largest that she had visited in London that one was called dark Thoy were and Golden  alter a line from Krilor Ray Bradbury and my husband said looking out the window and thinking of something else. Why Don l you open one up and 1 said of that s a Good idea i could Call it a change of Hobbit " people who read a lol of novels tend to talk in dialogue Sho copied All he names of publishers Dom Hor own collection of paperbacks Trolo to Ihm to order books found a /