Posts tagged buying books

takeaflightwithfairies:

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” 
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

bookriot:

Brooklyn’s BookCourt bookstore is seeking $300K in crowdfunding to purchase and renovate the Bibliobarn (seen here). We’ve been thinking: Why Should Readers Crowdfund a Bookstore?

bluesyemre: Brick and mortar: Best indie bookstores By Hilary Davidson In the age of Amazon and e-books, common wisdom claims that brick-and-mortar bookstores are… View Post Support your local bookstores.

bluesyemre:

Brick and mortar: Best indie bookstores By Hilary Davidson

  • In the age of Amazon and e-books, common wisdom claims that brick-and-mortar bookstores are…

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Support your local bookstores.

abetc: Libreria Fahreneit 451 Piazza Campo dei Fiori, Rome, Italy

abetc:


Libreria Fahreneit 451

Piazza Campo dei Fiori, Rome, Italy

kidpoetic:

4.19.13

Books were my first friends.

During my lunch break I decided to check out this book shop/cafe in Dupont Circle. Cute little place, will definitely have to come here during the summer.

Shot with a Nikon D3100.

kidpoetic

laetificus

The books I found at Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up Bookstore.

The books I found at Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up Bookstore.

ksjanes: The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

ksjanes:

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

ksjanes

melissarosati:

In Buenos Aries, is it bookstore or is it an opera house that sells books? Can you imagine this at the MET in NYC?

Puccini lovers delight in this Saturday night soundtrack!

nouvellabooks:

America’s favorite bookstores.

Which ones did they leave out?

nosquaretospare: Open air bookstore (by Manuel Lancha) Nice.

nosquaretospare:

Open air bookstore (by Manuel Lancha)

Nice.

guernicamag: (via Editors’ Picks: Independent Bookstores - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics) Dubus is devastating in the best way, and this book is the perfect introduction to his work. I’m always shocked more people haven’t read him, as he is one of the best short story writers I’ve encountered. These Selected Stories are about Catholicism, and the Northeast and once the South, and boys and girls and the things they do to each other. Fall/winter is the perfect time to curl up with Papa Dre Dubs (my nickname you are welcome to adopt; I panic about pronouncing “Dubus” and to differentiate him from his talented son, Andre Dubus III). Read more Guernica Daily

guernicamag:

(via Editors’ Picks: Independent Bookstores - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics)

Dubus is devastating in the best way, and this book is the perfect introduction to his work. I’m always shocked more people haven’t read him, as he is one of the best short story writers I’ve encountered. These Selected Stories are about Catholicism, and the Northeast and once the South, and boys and girls and the things they do to each other. Fall/winter is the perfect time to curl up with Papa Dre Dubs (my nickname you are welcome to adopt; I panic about pronouncing “Dubus” and to differentiate him from his talented son, Andre Dubus III).

Read more Guernica Daily

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mylifeasatwentysomething: “Of course, anyone who truly loves book buys more of them than he or she can hope to in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” -David Quammen

mylifeasatwentysomething:

“Of course, anyone who truly loves book buys more of them than he or she can hope to in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” -David Quammen

a market in France

a market in France