BooksaboutBooks

a house without books
is just a house — because home
is where the books are. 📚

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #bibliophile

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 @ImperfectCJ @The_Book_Ninja 3d

lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 Perfection. 3d

DebinHawaii So true! 💛📚💛 3d

dabbe L📚VE! 💜🩶🧡 3d

AnnCrystal Absolutely Epic Truth 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📚🤩📚🥲📚🐝💝. 2d

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JenlovesJT47

In Praise of Good Bookstores | Jeff Deutsch

allons à la librairie,
se perdre dans un bon livre —
nourriture pour ton âme.

let‘s go to the bookstore,
get lost in a good book —
food for your soul. ?

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #frenchhaiku #bibliophile

dabbe #allthefeels 🩵🩷💛 2w

Jari-chan 💖💖💖 2w

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TheBookHippie très magnifique 1w

lil1inblue 🩵😍🩵 1w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄📚🤩🐝📚. 1w

DebinHawaii 💛📚💛🐝💛 Love it! 1w

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LitsyEvents

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

@bennettbookworm has created a masterpiece in a document for all littens to use! Traveling? You can explore what bookshops are in your area and add bookshops to the doc!
original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2899239

BennettBookworm Thank you so much for reposting, and for the kind words!! 3w

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BennettBookworm

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

Confession: This was on my to-do list for 3 years. Now I‘m so excited to see it GROW as Littens add to this list of our fave bookstores around the world. If you‘re traveling, you can use the list to see if there‘s a cool bookstore you‘d like to visit!🗺️🤓

Please add YOUR faves! Thanks to all who contributed 3 years ago… happy exploring!

SHOUTOUT to my sister who opened a new bookstore THIS YEAR!! Bookish Notions- Media, PA!! 🥳 @LiteraryinPA

Julsmarshall, wanderinglynn, Hooked_on_books, BarkingMadRead, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Amiable, LeahBergen, Sharpeipup, shortsarahrose, CaitZ, Bklover, TrishB, Deblovestoread, Eggs, Chrissyreadit, RowReads1, BekaReid, TheQuietQuill, Liz_M, Nessavamusic, kstadt929, Slajaunie, Ruthiella, jdiehr, TheSpineView, hissingpotatoes, dabbe, IndoorDame, Scochrane26, TheAromaofBooks, Jess861, Twainy, peanutnine, BookBosomed1, Zuhkeeyah, ETALTON

BennettBookworm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bhrLSxrlmKcF3aIUlraHGNQ5XedXvextPbfd3RYeQgw/... 3w

BennettBookworm @LitsyEvents 3w

BekaReid Love this! I just added several 📚🤗 3w

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charl08 I split the UK into nations and added some more. Tagging @squirrelbrain incase she can add some more here (and hasn't seen already!) 3w

Amiable Yay!! I was just talking to @TheBookHippie about this!! 3w

Itchyfeetreader Oh I will go back and add …. 3w

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 3w

TheBookHippie @Amiable yay!!!!! 3w

Liz_M Brooklyn is better represented, now. Thanks for sharing the list! @Kitta, what did I miss? I haven't started on Manhattan or Queens yet. (edited) 3w

wanderinglynn How awesome! And congrats to your sister! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w

squirrelbrain Thanks @charl08 - I‘ll add some once I‘m back from my hols! 3w

dabbe Fabulous idea! I added a few! 💜🩶🧡 3w

LeahBergen This is such a wonderful idea!! 👏👏 3w

Hooked_on_books I can‘t manage to get the doc to let me add any, so I‘ll mention here: Beach Books in Seaside, OR, Cannon Beach Book Company in Cannon Beach, OR, and Basically Books in Hilo, HI. 3w

staci.reads This is awesome! I added a bunch from the Midwest and a few from the southeast! 3w

Ruthiella Fantastic! I added Vromans, Skylight and Cellar Door Books for California and Smith Family Bookstore for Oregon. 3w

monalyisha This is going to be such a useful tool! I didn‘t see any listed for my state yet, so I‘ll go in and add my favorite local RI shops once my laptop‘s charged up. 😉 Fabulous idea! Thanks for dreaming it up! 3w

monalyisha @Amiable, I want to go in and add an asterisk to The Book Barn in support to show how much I love it! …Part of me thinks asterisks might be helpful (like ratings/favoriting) but that‘s probably complicating things unnecessarily. I‘m good at complicating things. 😅 3w

monalyisha @BennettBookworm Are the bunny pics from your sister‘s bookstore? If so, I think we might be kindred?!?! 3w

lil1inblue Oh, how wonderful! This is amazing! 😍 3w

TheKidUpstairs Love this! I'll add my favourite Ontario bookstores soon! 3w

Faranae Would you mind terribly if I added headings that work with the table of contents function? This would make it a quick click for folks to get to the country they wanted to see. 3w

BennettBookworm @Faranae Yes please!! I wanted to but forgot how 😄 3w

Faranae @BennettBookworm Happy to help! And Google keep messing about with the functions of Google Docs, so probably the way you are used to disappeared or got moved. ☠ 3w

Bklover What a wonderful idea!! 3w

PuddleJumper Added some for the UK. What a great idea! Thanks for doing this 3w

BennettBookworm @Hooked_on_books Thanks, I‘ve added those now!! 3w

BennettBookworm @monalyisha Thank you so much!! 😍😍😍And actually the photos are Top L: my sister‘s, Bookish Notions; Top R: Daunt Books in London; Bottom L: Last Bookstore in Los Angeles; and Bottom R with the bunnies: Scattered Books in Chappaqua, NY!! 🐰🤩💕📚 3w

BennettBookworm Thank you all SO MUCH for the positive vibes and for adding so much! This rocks 🙏🏻 @BekaReid @charl08 @Amiable @Itchyfeetreader @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @Liz_M @squirrelbrain @wanderinglynn @dabbe @LeahBergen @staci.reads @Ruthiella @lil1inblue @TheKidUpstairs @Bklover @PuddleJumper 3w

Catsandbooks This is such an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing! ❤️ 3w

Bookperson96 🙂👍Amazing idea. @BennettBookworm 2w

Bookperson96 Wishing you a prosperous and joyful time with your bookstore❣️🙂 @LiteraryinPA (edited) 2w

BennettBookworm Thank you!! @Catsandbooks @Bookperson96 2w

Bookperson96 You‘re welcome! 🙂📚📍💗 @BennetBookworm 2w

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Eggs

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life | Anne Bogel

A different take for the #DearDiary prompt — this stack represents diaries to record one‘s books, and expressions of book worlds and book love 💕

#Falling

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 😍 4w

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you 🙏🏻 3w

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Teresereading

Treasures of the State Library of Victoria | Bev Roberts

Coincidentally on 4 September we went on a 'behind the scenes' library tour

#libraryfun
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

MrsMalaprop Such a stunning library. Will have to visit when we are in Melbourne next month. We did a tour there. It was free and about the history of the library and books. Is that different to the tour you did? 4w

Teresereading Yes its a different tour. 4w

Eggs Great photo/architecture 👌🏼 4w

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

A Reader on Reading | Alberto Manguel

Prompt: Library Fun

Fun for real! I loved going to the University Library. It brought back lots of memories as I worked for 3 years at the University Library when I was an undergraduate.

#Falling

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Lovely 🥰 4w

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Mattsbookaday

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller | Oliver Darkshire

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Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire (2022)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Premise: A memoir about a young man‘s apprenticeship at an esteemed London antiquarian book dealer.

Review: I discovered the author through his recent novel and was intrigued to learn that he first became known for his unique and humorous takes on a notoriously staid trade. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday This book is comprised of short vignettes, and while they are as charming and fun as expected, they also felt a bit rushed in places. But overall this was super fun.

Bookish Pair: Darkshire‘s recent novel Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil (2025). 1mo

Aims42 This was such a fun palate cleanser between heavier reads 👍 1mo

Mattsbookaday @Aims42 that‘s exactly how I used it too! 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

so-so

Meh, this one is mostly my fault, but it did help me figure out the kind of bookstore book I would be more interested in reading in the future.
Understandably, the early chapters of the book, talking about the early history of American bookstores are also tied in with early American history, and maybe it's that next-door-neighbour Canadian thing, but I've kind of had my fill of American history. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I did love when the book started focusing in on later bookshops and the personalities and movements involved such as:
Gotham Book Mart - freedom of expression, contesting censors, supporting writers
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop - gay pride, community support
Drum & Spear - activism and education against racism, segregation 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Didn't feel much like reading about Nazis, but the chapter titled The Aryan Bookstore did also discuss co-evolving socialist and communist, radical bookstores, supporting movements for various people's rights.
Unavoidably, the book covers the role in American bookstore history played by Barnes and Noble and Amazon Books, but not being American, not loving chain or mall or supersized bookstores or what Amazon has done, I was less interested 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 in these chapters.

Going forward, I think I need to look for individual independent book shop histories, those with character, and/or focused on quirky niche topics, or a history of revolution and activism or social/community support.
Happy to receive recommendations! 😁

⚠️Suicide attempt, homophobia, antisemitism, racism 1mo

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dabbe

Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained | DK Publishing

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I love books about books. GREAT NOVELS is a well-executed book for what it sets out to be: a visually-driven, accessible introduction to world literature. Its value lies in its ability to demystify, educate, and inspire. It is a fantastic gateway book—a starting point for a deeper journey into literature, not the destination itself. Its approach is like that of a curated museum tour, not a semester course in literature.

DGRachel That sounds like fun! 1mo

Amiable Ooh, this is right up my alley —stacking! 1mo

dabbe @DGRachel It was, and of course, I stacked more books! 🧡🩶💛 1mo

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dabbe @Amiable I love their books, especially all of the literary ones. 🧡🩶💛 1mo

MemoirsForMe Great review! I may have to read this one. 🙌🏻 1mo

dabbe @MemoirsForMe I thoroughly enjoyed it and added more books to the tbr! 🧡🩶💛 1mo

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