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LitsyEvents
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@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!
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https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2899239

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BennettBookworm
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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

BekaReid Love this! I just added several 📚🤗 3d
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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!) 3d
Amiable Yay!! I was just talking to @TheBookHippie about this!! 3d
Itchyfeetreader Oh I will go back and add …. 3d
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 3d
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) 2d
wanderinglynn How awesome! And congrats to your sister! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2d
squirrelbrain Thanks @charl08 - I‘ll add some once I‘m back from my hols! 2d
dabbe Fabulous idea! I added a few! 💜🩶🧡 2d
LeahBergen This is such a wonderful idea!! 👏👏 2d
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. 2d
staci.reads This is awesome! I added a bunch from the Midwest and a few from the southeast! 2d
Ruthiella Fantastic! I added Vromans, Skylight and Cellar Door Books for California and Smith Family Bookstore for Oregon. 2d
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! 2d
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. 😅 2d
monalyisha @BennettBookworm Are the bunny pics from your sister‘s bookstore? If so, I think we might be kindred?!?! 2d
lil1inblue Oh, how wonderful! This is amazing! 😍 1d
TheKidUpstairs Love this! I'll add my favourite Ontario bookstores soon! 1d
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. 1d
BennettBookworm @Faranae Yes please!! I wanted to but forgot how 😄 1d
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. ☠ 1d
Bklover What a wonderful idea!! 1d
PuddleJumper Added some for the UK. What a great idea! Thanks for doing this 1d
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Eggs
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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

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you 🙏🏻 3d
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Teresereading
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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? 6d
Teresereading Yes its a different tour. 6d
Eggs Great photo/architecture 👌🏼 5d
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
A Reader on Reading | Alberto Manguel
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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 Lovely 🥰 6d
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Mattsbookaday
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Pickpick

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).
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Aims42 This was such a fun palate cleanser between heavier reads 👍 1w
Mattsbookaday @Aims42 that‘s exactly how I used it too! 1w
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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-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
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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
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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
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dabbe
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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! 2w
Amiable Ooh, this is right up my alley —stacking! 2w
dabbe @DGRachel It was, and of course, I stacked more books! 🧡🩶💛 2w
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dabbe @Amiable I love their books, especially all of the literary ones. 🧡🩶💛 2w
MemoirsForMe Great review! I may have to read this one. 🙌🏻 2w
dabbe @MemoirsForMe I thoroughly enjoyed it and added more books to the tbr! 🧡🩶💛 1w
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Leftcoastzen
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#CharacterCharm #Librarian Nancy Pearl started recommending books on a Seattle public radio segment. It grew into a series of books . She recommended so many great books over the years , fiction, non-fiction, historical, series etc. Her books were always fun to browse, it‘s fun to pick a category you may not have tried before,she always has a knack for finding a good title to try to see if you might want to read further!

Eggs This sounds wonderful!! 2w
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Amiable
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Shoutout to my local indie: RJ Julia in Madison, CT!
And The Book Barn in Niantic.
And Bank Square Books in Mystic.
And Northshire Books in Manchester, VT.
And The Strand in NYC. …

Ah, Hell, who am I kidding? Gimme ALL the bookstores… 😍 this is why I shop at Bookshop.org. So I can spread the love…

#serenesaturdays

kspenmoll I love this shout out! In CT let me add Riverbend bookstore- their main store is in Glastonbury, their smaller store in West Hartford. And yes to every Indio bookstore everywhere! 2w
Amiable @kspenmoll I‘ll have to stop at Riverbend the next time I take my car up to Liberty Mazda in Hartford for service! I usually come home along Route 2 and could stop in Glastonbury. 2w
kspenmoll @Amiable Great idea! Next time! We do go to RJ Julia‘s in Madison every summer. It‘s a family tradition! 2w
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TheBookHippie Making LOOOOONG list of bookstores to visit ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2w
Amiable @TheBookHippie Someone on here was going to compile a list of “favorite Litsy bookstores” at one point —I don‘t think they ever did and I forget who it was. But I‘d love to see a list like that! 2w
TheBookHippie @Amiable YESSSSS!!!!!! 2w
dabbe 🧡🩶💛 2w
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