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Off the Wagon…
…and tearing it apart and burning it for firewood. After trying to limit how many new books I buy, I have to admit defeat. I have been buying books again. I never really stopped, though I did slow...
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Books Do Furnish a Room
Type Books is launching a new initiative tonight, a custom library service. Here is what Derek McCormack told me about it: The custom library service isn’t something Type dreamed up so much as...
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Bibliophile’s Delight at Oak Knoll Books
I have found a bookstore and publisher that deals exclusively with books about books. Oak Knoll Books in Delaware. Admittedly, many of these books are so specialized that they have a limited...
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Back Soon
I’ve been in Chicago. Will the temptations of a new city’s bookstores be too much for my weak willpower? Will I make it to April 1 without having to admit total defeat in the TBR Dare? Will it count...
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In My Imaginary Shopping Bag
The Big Dream by Rebecca Rosenblum The Odious Child by Carolyn Black And Also Sharks by Jessica Westhead And 56 other titles. Time to winnow. But definitely these. Filed under: Bookstores
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The Secret Bookstore
There’s No Place Like Here: Brazenhead Books from Etsy on Vimeo. Thanks, Shawna. Filed under: Bookstores
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“I need the stupid things”
I like to think that I’m no bookworm, egghead, four-eyed paleface library rat. I often engage in activities that have no reference to the printed words. I realize that books are not the entire world,...
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Forgotten Bookmarks by Michael Popek
Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Left Between the Pages by Michael Popek First there was the blog, then there was the book. Second-hand bookseller Michael Popek finds all...
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End of a Chapter for Shakespeare and Company
George Whitman, proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, has died at 98. Full story here. Filed under: Bookstores
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The Green Man by Michael Bedard
The Green Man Michael Bedard Toronto: Tundra Books, 2012. This is the first book I’ve read by Michael Bedard, whose Redwork won the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature in 1990. The...
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The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald London: Flamingo, 1989. I have to begin by saying that I can’t think of how to write about this book without spoilers. The ending weighs so heavily on me. What a...
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Stop Motion Felt Animation Set in Shakespeare and Company: Books Come to Life
Check out this wonderful collaboration between Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan: Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), a short stop motion film set inside the famous Parisian bookstore,...
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Stop Motion Felt Animation Set in Shakespeare and Company: Books Come to Life
Check out this wonderful collaboration between Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan: Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), a short stop motion film set inside the famous Parisian bookstore,...
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Stop Motion Felt Animation Set in Shakespeare and Company: Books Come to Life
Check out this wonderful collaboration between Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan: Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), a short stop motion film set inside the famous Parisian bookstore,...
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