books I bought
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Bookshop Visit–Trident Booksellers & Cafe
There are not a lot of bookshops near my home. Actually, there are not any bookshops near my home. The nearest Barnes & Noble is about 45 minutes away and that is about as good as it gets. So, when I realized that I would be in Boston a few times a month I started compiling a list of bookshops I absolutely had to visit. I am making unbelievably slow progress in conquering this list because my time is not my own when I am in Boston but last week I managed to check one more bookshop off my list. A kind person on Instagram suggested I visit Trident Booksellers…
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Book Purchases
I started pulling books off my shelves in order to write this post, (or more accurately, pulling books off the piles in front of my shelves) and I realized that I have been on a bit of a non-fiction book buying binge. Of the eight books I am mentioning here only two are fiction. One is pictured above, Bond Street Story by Norman Collins. I read London Belongs To Me by the same author last year and greatly enjoyed it. Here is my review. I have been meaning to read something else by him so I am happy with this purchase, especially since the book arrived with such an awesome dust jacket. When you…
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Books I Bought In London
I bought books in London. We all knew I was going to buy books in London. No matter how much I insisted that this was a vacation for the kids it was obvious that books were going to be purchased. After all, what is a trip to London for if you don’t return with your suitcase crammed full of books? And tote bags. I seem to have developed a tote bag addiction. I didn’t have the time to wander through bookstores for hours at a time so my book shopping was much more focused than usual. I went to a few specific bookstores and if I saw something interesting I…
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Bookshop Love–Brattle Book Shop
Brattle Book Shop in Boston is my favorite kind of bookshop. It isn’t a chain. You won’t find all the latest releases. There isn’t a coffee shop or a play area for your children. It isn’t full of comfy chairs and carefully curated displays. What it is is a real honest-to-goodness secondhand bookshop and there aren’t too many of those around these days. Nothing says happiness like rummaging through an eclectic selection of old books and discovering a treasure you didn’t even know you were looking for. I only had half an hour before I had to be at an appointment but it was a half-hour I put to good…
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Book Mail
I haven’t bought very many books lately. I just looked back and I haven’t done one of these posts in two months and today I only have six books to show you. Six books in two months is a pathetic showing for someone who claims to love books as much as I do. I really need to up my book buying game for the sake of my blog. The problem is that my kids keep outgrowing their clothes so all my possible spare cash goes on replacing the barely worn clothes they can no longer fit into. Please tell me that a 6’1″ sixteen-year-old with size thirteen feet will eventually…
