How can you not love a bookstore that has this as a tagline on their website: Fine Literature for Young People? I can tell just from those words that this is a store that cares about kids and cares about sharing the best in children’s books with them. I haven’t (yet) been to Books, Bytes…
When you walk into Micawber’s Books, you feel as though you’ve stepped into another time and place. The wooden floors creak in a friendly manner as you wander among the shelves and tables of books. Unfamiliar titles catch your eye. You feel steeped in a special atmosphere — the atmosphere of the love of books….
It seemed appropriate — after featuring The Once and Future King in my usual book recommendation slot a couple of weeks ago, dramatized by a man from London, Brian Sibley, and originally written by a man who is considered to be one of the great English authors, T.H. White — to feature a London bookshop…
In keeping with the review I did two weeks ago of James McMullan’s Leaving China, and my interview with him last week, today we’re calling in on three bookstores that I know Jim is familiar with. Although none of these bookstores offers the kind of online ordering one finds at the large online booksellers, each…
Just before the summer break, a friend and I talked about what we could do to encourage people to support local (and not-so-local) independent bookstores. One thought we had was monthly blog posts that would highlight some of the fantastic indie bookstores there are. So the last Friday of every month, I’ll be posting about…
Have you seen the movie You’ve Got Mail? Have you yearned, as I have, to visit the children’s bookstore, The Shop Around the Corner, that is a central character in the movie? Have you wished, as I have, that it were real? Have you bemoaned its fate, being forced out of business by the giant…