Welcome to Litsy!

A book where a select number of authors write about browsing their favorite bookstores and what they have meant to them.

On occasion, they will also write about things that I‘ve never thought about. Like after the fall of Soviet, the bookstores in Ukraine suddenly had a lot of Soviet literature that no one wanted anymore forcing them to close. And the importance of bookstores during the Arab Spring/ The Egypt Revolution in 2011.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 228 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

It‘s a great day for #bookmail! Thank you @Hooked_on_books , I‘ll start this once I get through Ten Years in the Tub. This feels like a good follow up. I did read the intro right away 😊.

I absolutely love the bookmark! It‘s so cool that you used one of my favorite books and a piece of my art that is based on it. Coolest gift I‘ve gotten in some time. Thank you!

This book of essays from authors about bookstores important to them is a warm hug for bibliophiles. I thought it might be bittersweet given our current moment, but it was simply delightful. My favorite was from Saša Stanišić, with books as drugs, readers as users and booksellers as dealers. Spot on.

I thoroughly enjoyed this essay collection of authors around the world writing about bookstores they have loved. This was my March book in my #page1books subscription box, and it was a spot-on choice. Leitner and I by Sasa Stanisic was my favorite essay. He wrote tongue-in-cheek as if books were drugs and bookstore owners were the dealers. I laughed out loud several times. This is a great book about books, especially for armchair travelers.

I love this quote. What an image!

Books about books and bookshops are the best!!! Found this at a great indie bookshop in St. Louis, Subterranean Books.

True for me! :D

"No one knows how a vocation manifests itself, or what paths destiny uses to appear to its victims,"

~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez (p69)

Yay! Another #deweysreadathon today! Are you participating?
These are my current books that I'll be definitely reading. Learning more about donkeys... in French so slow going. Inspiration for journalling and essays about bookstores by different authors (like Ali Smith). I only need to choose a novel or mystery for a change of palate! Will post a pic of the options.
#24hourreadathon2018 #24hourreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Any book about bookstores, about opening up a bookstore, about hanging out in bookstores, about finding love in bookstores, about books sold in book stores...any book with the word bookstore or any related bookish-word in the title, any book about the books that other readers are reading...well, you get the picture...simply put, I‘m here for that book!

Cat sitting and reading: great combo! 😸

#ReadingResolutions day 5: #Bookstore

A book about how the bookshops have shaped 15 writers. Unfortunately this is still on my tbr

Has anyone else tried Browsery? It is pretty fun. I like reading and answering the questions. It is not nearly as charming as Litsy but still fun. I‘m not really looking for recs ( I get those here) I‘m just enjoying the interactions.

Anybody checked out Barnes and Nobles‘ new book recommendation app, #Browsery, yet?

I think it was earlier this week that @DivaDiane wanted to see the shelves with th books we chose from for #MountTBRchallenge This is part of my unread books, and the piles have been ever growing.

I think that half of the books I've read so far this year have been from my tbr.

@Smangela
1. Browse: The World in Bookshops
2. Atlas Obscura
3. Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind
4.My Favorite Thing is Monsters V. 2
5. The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition Fernando Pessoa

Note my most wanted books are large and more expensive- the best kind of “wish list” for me! note- this is for my family for Christmas- not a secret santa wish list😁

So I've been adding my books to LibraryThing and so far I own 1103 physical books and I have a few more to catalogue- just tryna cut down on the clutter and ☝️. My library doesn't have it either- so annoying

If you have a weakness for bookshops, fond memories of favourite haunts & singular booksellers, whether you like serendipitous finds or just need a fix, you will love this book. Diverse essays, all very high quality. Stand-outs included Ali Smith, Andrew Kurkov, Sasa Stanisic, Daniel Kehlmann & Dorthe Nors. Diverse, but all understand & bring to life the special joy of browsing through a bookshop. #bookaboutbooks #readharder

I accompanied my husband on the weekend to our favourite bookshop in HK: Kelly & Walsh. No books for me, I said. Then he showed me this and it had some of my favourite authors (Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Daniel Kehlmann, Ali Smith who I haven't even read yet) and I had to have it. 🙈🙄 taking a break from The Lowland with this & a glass of Chardonnay. It's delightful! 🍸

Top book (tagged) is newly released today, and features authors talking about their favorite bookstores. The other three were a direct result of reading the NY Times Book Review. #bookmail #nosuchthingastoomanybooks

So-so leaning toward 👍🏻. A collection of essays by writers musing on their love of bookshops, usually one in particular, running the gamut from funny, to sweet, moving, and a bit eye-roll inducing. There's a lot of Dead Tree Books Rah Rah Bewail Changing Culture Popular Literature is The Devil. I'm generous with this book because almost every writer celebrated the joy of an interrupted bookstore browse. I enjoy that activity greatly.

😂 #EminentlyLitsiable

But whatever its size, a colony of second-hand books always has an evocative smell. At the risk of sounding like a breathless oenophile, I‘d claim that among its usual scents are almond and vanilla, a grassy sweetness, damp wood and even a hint of mushroom; teased by these aromas, I find myself in a forest, able to slip between worlds or between times, hopeful that behind some of the dark leaves there are golden ones. #EminentlyLitsiable

There‘s a common assumption today that, in order to thrive, bookshops need to be good at things other than selling books. Yet what I look for in a bookshop is still a passion for books themselves. Not a front-foot, evangelizing passion, but the kind of ardour that expresses itself as a desire to have stock that other shops don‘t have and to represent the world of books with sensitivity and conviction. ⬇️

@TheBookmarkPR @Rex @bookspresso #BooksellerLife

#AuspiciousBeginning

A reader's life, is among other things this tissue of opportune coincidences.
- Juan Gabriel Vasquez

A collection of essays by some writers about bookshops. Some were more engaging than others but on the whole an enjoyable read of different styles and view points. Some of my favourite essays were by Elif Shafak, YiYun Li, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Ali Smith and Ian Samson.

My wonderful colleagues gave me this as a belated birthday present. ❤️❤️

Stumbled across this one in a book store yesterday and think it's got a #coolcover Another add to #mounttbr

👍🏻

Tales from the bookshop; that treasure trove, time machine, cabinet of curiosities... that possess a unique kind of magic.
What's your bookshop story?