The Guardian had an article today
that I wished I'd responded to today Bookshop memories: your pictures and stories but since I have a blog I don't have to write
in to them and just have somebody skim over my part dreaming about their own
memories. I can write it here and then I can ask my blogging friends about
their own bookstore memories.
So I have two that I will share… The
first is about the Tattered Cover. It is a one of the best bookstores in Denver
and I've enjoyed going there for years. Romantically Maurice and I had our
first date there 9 years ago on June 12th. Sadly, this particular
location (which was a great one!) has moved and been changed to a home décor store
and exercise studio. But they are still in three locations around Denver which
we frequent will some regularity.
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| Tattered Cover Cherry Creek |
The second is my first big shopping trip buying books. I was preparing to
go to college and I had save money to buy the things I needed for the year
ahead. Most would think mostly about clothes, towels, shampoos… etc, Not me. I
had about $400 (I think). I’d been more or less commanded to set some of that
aside for clothes but the rest I’d designated that toward… books! So I headed
off to the mall to do my shopping and spent a lovely afternoon at Walden books
(back when they had such a thing at the mall). I bought trade paperbacks so that
my small budget would go further (I didn't know how many used bookstores there
were in Denver at that time). Herbert, Hemingway, Hawthorne, Bronte, Austin, and
Tolkien were among the names that were added to my library that day. I was so
thrilled to walk out of the bookstore, my arms filled with some of the best
literature I could find.
So what about you? Do you have a bookshop memory? I’d love to hear it!
