What a thrilling thing it must be..to see one's book in a great bookstore.
I like browsing bookstores too...we have Scorpios amongst others here. But I don't buy many & mainly for children now. I'm a library habitue, I don't need to own them. My bro on the other hand...
What a wonderful bookshop, very much an Aladdin's cave. Sadly I didn't know about it on the two occasions I've been in London. I feel like Jefferson, I know that I could not live without books. The survival and renaissance of good bookshops is a relief and a joy. Despite being able to buy online, what greater pleasure than browsing in a high quality bookstore. One of my favourites is Dear Reader in West Lynn, Auckland. And closer to home, Carson's in Thames is not too bad. One of the gifts in reading a wonderful book, is that it can often give you clues as to other books to investigate. I recently read a book by a woman who described the pleasures in re-reading Jane Austen at different times in one's life, and I have embarked on that very course. Currently I'm reading Sense and Sensibility and very much enjoying and appreciating it anew. As well as the other Austens awaiting my attention, there is now a list of Booker short-listed volumes to be investigated. I do read non-fiction, and Iain McGilchrist's The Matter With Things is a current challenge. It's very accessible but is two huge volumes. Your current article may have started something David, if it prompts others, like me, to tell us of their reading lives. I'd enjoy that!
The handiest place for me is Time Out in Mt Eden - it has been there almost as long as we have been in our abode.
Just picked up John Prebble's "Glencoe" for a reread - a follow up to our visit to the Highlands and Orkney in July-August and a sobering hour or so at Culloden moor. Saw our clan stone there. It was grim. I will write about it - I have an outline in my notebook.
More London bookshops to come including the amazing, weird and wonderful Cecil Court.
I also enjoy Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street, "if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Circero
What a thrilling thing it must be..to see one's book in a great bookstore.
I like browsing bookstores too...we have Scorpios amongst others here. But I don't buy many & mainly for children now. I'm a library habitue, I don't need to own them. My bro on the other hand...
It was indeed a joyous moment.
What a wonderful bookshop, very much an Aladdin's cave. Sadly I didn't know about it on the two occasions I've been in London. I feel like Jefferson, I know that I could not live without books. The survival and renaissance of good bookshops is a relief and a joy. Despite being able to buy online, what greater pleasure than browsing in a high quality bookstore. One of my favourites is Dear Reader in West Lynn, Auckland. And closer to home, Carson's in Thames is not too bad. One of the gifts in reading a wonderful book, is that it can often give you clues as to other books to investigate. I recently read a book by a woman who described the pleasures in re-reading Jane Austen at different times in one's life, and I have embarked on that very course. Currently I'm reading Sense and Sensibility and very much enjoying and appreciating it anew. As well as the other Austens awaiting my attention, there is now a list of Booker short-listed volumes to be investigated. I do read non-fiction, and Iain McGilchrist's The Matter With Things is a current challenge. It's very accessible but is two huge volumes. Your current article may have started something David, if it prompts others, like me, to tell us of their reading lives. I'd enjoy that!
Thanks for the comment Sheryl.
I shall sally forth and seek out Dear Reader.
The handiest place for me is Time Out in Mt Eden - it has been there almost as long as we have been in our abode.
Just picked up John Prebble's "Glencoe" for a reread - a follow up to our visit to the Highlands and Orkney in July-August and a sobering hour or so at Culloden moor. Saw our clan stone there. It was grim. I will write about it - I have an outline in my notebook.
More London bookshops to come including the amazing, weird and wonderful Cecil Court.