Oh, the places we’ll go!
Dr Seuss
Stories are my favorite vacations to take; the (independent, old-fashioned) bookstores that house them — their floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves filled with volumes of as-yet-uncharted territory — are among my favorite places to visit.
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What are you reading, hmmm?
And where do the words take you?
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I love book stores too. Currently I’m reading two books. One is fiction by Brad Thor: Spy Master. It’s a thriller and I love thrillers. The other is a true story. It’s about a young girl who was put into sexual slavery. It’s called “Trafficked” by Sophie Hayes. I often read two books at the same time. One fiction and the other truth.
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I’m familiar with Brad Thor. Adventure/Thriller is definitely one of the categories I peruse when book shopping. 🙂
I often read multiple books at once as well, typically a combination of fiction and nonfiction that I read at separate paces (it takes me less than two days to read a good mystery, sometimes more than two months to get through a historical tome). One of the books I’m working my way through right now was written by a late-1800s pioneer and was published late in his life (he was in his 70s when it came out, which was more than 50 years ago). It’s fascinating.
Ooooh I love book stores! And libraries! There is something magical about both.
Rebel xox
All those as-yet-unread words in one place… Magical, yes. And powerful.
Oooh I love the Real bookstores! I just love seeing rows and rows of books, with their hidden possibilities. The first book I ever bought at age 12, was a ostrich-skin bound copy of Tennyson’s poems, with the enraved illustrations covered with tissue. It was beat up looking in the 50c clearance bin, but I just liked the way it looked. The bookstore was big and dusty, with the sliding floor-to-ceiling ladders, the way bookstores looked in old movies.
I don’t read so much these days but when I do, I revisit old favorites of short story collections, such as Dorothy Parker, or Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood, and Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
I have a book of Tennyson poems too! It’s from the late 1800s, hand-tipped illustrations. I used to peruse it when I was younger but now it mostly just sits on a shelf and looks pretty. 😉
Yes I also love browsing the shelves in a book shop too.
I don’t necessarily always purchase one . . . more it’s just the “feeling” of actually being there in those surroundings. Quiet and peaceful, calm and serene . . . surrounded by words . . . taking in that special “smell” of a proper book shop.
Wonderful !!!
Xxx – K
The scent! Yes, I completely agree: there is something special about the way a book store smells. 🙂
I love those kinds of intimate bookshops — narrow shelves with bad light and heaven knows what treasures awaiting.
I found some fabulous treasures in this one — a cloth-bound silver engraved copy of collected Virginia Woolf, and a memoir written by a female veterinarian who flew (with her spouse) a small plane to northwest outposts during the 1950s to treat animals large and small. I’m looking forward to reading both! 🙂
🙂 Well worth reading , I’ll bet ! 🙂
(i don’t know what happened to my comment. trying again. )
I love Seuss!! I recently got 2 Dr Seuss books when we went shopping and chanced on a sale. BIKSS got them for me – and growing up i loved reading them, but we didn’t have a lot of money so all of my reading was done at the library. These two are the first Seuss books i’ve ever owned! Hurray!
Thank you for re-commenting! My blog completely disappeared on Saturday and was down for about 16 hours; when I got it back, a few things were missing. 😱
I’m a Dr Seuss fan too — The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is one of my favorites to read aloud to youngsters, and growing up I totally loved Green Eggs and Ham. 🙂
I think you mentioned libraries in your original comment; libraries were part of my childhood too. My hometown library had read-a-thons in the summertime. Kids could earn points for pages read / books completed, then trade them in for reading-related prizes at the end-of-summer library carnival. It was through the library that I ‘met’ Nancy Drew, and that’s also the place that introduced me to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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