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!
Ah -- nice memories! I love looking around old antique bookstores, where the books are piled up on the floor and where there are exciting nooks and crannies.
ReplyDeleteMe too! Thanks Fi!!
DeleteLooking for mathematics texts in the cavernous underground Norrington room in Blackwell's, Oxford. Also dropping in to Button's bookshop most afternoons on my way home from school.
ReplyDeleteSounds great! Good memories. Thanks Ian!
DeleteMy bookshop memory was probably going to Waldenbooks as a kid and seeing a whole wall of fantasy titles. That's where I discovered David Eddings and started reading. I was hooked.
ReplyDeleteGood on you! I didn't read Eddings until after college and really enjoyed him. Almost as much as Donaldson.
DeleteWhen I lived in NYC, I loved going to... can't remember the name of it. It was near 5th and 26th. They had a great used book section. It may have been B&N Annex or something like that. Powell's in Portland is a real treat.
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