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Librerias | Jorge Carrion

I had hoped to go today, but yesterday was their last day of business. Sad 😢

writerlibrarian ☹️ 5y

Suet624 Oh no. 5y

Melissa_J That‘s sad. 5y

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tournevis @writerlibrarian @Suet624 Sad story. The owner died suddenly in February and the widow was forced to sell the building, the new owners of which ordered her and the books out by June end. She was giving away the stock last week. My guess is that used book traders came and emptied it out. 5y

tournevis @Melissa_J It is. See my previous comment. 5y

Melissa_J That makes the news even sadder! 5y

Tamra 😑 5y

LiteraryinLawrence Very sad. 5y

tournevis @Melissa_J I know! 5y

tournevis @Tamra @LiteraryinLititz 😢 5y

rretzler How sad. A long time independent used bookstore that I visited quite a bit over the nearly 40 years I‘ve lived in Columbus closed recently. It does leave a little hole. 5y

tournevis @rretzler More than a little... 5y

Leftcoastzen Every loss of a bookstore anywhere breaks my heart! 5y

tournevis @Leftcoastzen This story is especially sad. 5y

Gissy 😢 5y

Megabooks It‘s so heartbreaking when indies close! 💔💔 5y

tournevis @Megabooks That village just lost 50% of their bookstores. 5y

Megabooks @tournevis The closest indie to my town is two hours away. We have a Books-A-Million and their used book chain, 2nd and Charles, just opened. Other than that, it‘s the random books at Dollar Tree and Ollie‘s. There are some people that don‘t understand why we have a library. ☹️🤦🏻‍♀️ It‘s just sad how gossip on our phones has replaced “real reading” for so many!! 5y

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

pick

I'm glad I finished it in April, because now ... ⬆️

It's a pick, but I'm not gushing over this book, like I'm wont to. I've posted before that Carrion is no Eco or Manguel, but his love for bookstores is real, has brought him all over the world (but not Canada, nor, say, Belgium). It's about what bookstores do for us and for society, and how things are changing now that books are more than ever commodities, massively sold, online and elsewhere.

batsy This pic 🤣 5y

tournevis @batsy A classic! 5y

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

(translating the French version)

"[Today brings] An exhaustive disarticulation of the 19th century bourgeois thought schema, the waining of the last dredges of divinity's wrek in everyday life. Irony's political triumph over the sacred."

I think he finds it unfortunate. Am I the only one who rejoices over this?

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

It works!!! Thanks @kgriffith and @librarianryan!

kgriffith, LibrarianRyan

Nu-Bibliophile This is awesome ! 5y

tournevis @nu-bibliophile So happy about this! 5y

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

How lovely this web interface is! I now can see I joined Litsy in December 2016. Yé! I'll try not to flood the app with posts I can make so easily now. w00t! 😍 😊 😊 😊

Unfortunately, the interface does not let me add an image, stating that this license is not valid for litsy.com. That needs to be fixed pronto.

CampbellTaraL Coming from Android perspective, I love that activities vs conversations are separated on the web version 😍 5y

LibrarianRyan @KGriffith it looks like @tournevis is having the same problem I was having last week. 5y

julesG @taraWritesSci Yes!!! I love that feature, too. 5y

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kgriffith Thanks, @LibrarianRyan! @tournevis what URL are you using? 5y

wanderinglynn Hm, I added an image with no problem. 5y

tournevis @kgriffith litsy.com 5y

tournevis @taraWritesSci I agree! 5y

kgriffith @tournevis you need to make sure you‘re using www — we‘re working on the redirect from litsy.com to www.litsy.com but in the meantime, always make sure you‘re on www. 5y

tournevis @kgriffith Got it! 👍 5y

Clare-Dragonfly There‘s a web interface now?! Callooh, callay! 5y

tournevis @Clare-Dragonfly Learn about it this morning! 5y

CarolynM Thanks for the heads up👍 5y

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Librerias | Jorge Carrion

So Carrion seems completely convinced that physical books are at en end, even if he admits that he does not know when that end will be. Can I say that, as a historian, he is dead wrong? When humans are gone, books will be gone. Not before then. Oh well.

Eyelit You are correct! 5y

tournevis @Eyelit Books at this point are the kind of ubiquitous tech on the same level as the spoon and fork. Not going away. 5y

GingerAntics I have to agree with you on that one. 5y

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Librerias | Jorge Carrion

1️⃣ Continuing tagged, plus fanfics released this past week.
2️⃣ Princess Bride (1987), though Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946), and Jacques Demy's Peau d'Âne (1970) are very close.
3️⃣ Meh.
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

Looked through the index for something and apparently Canada's only bookstores of note are Swipe Books and World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto and Chapters (but not Indigo). Someone did not visit Montréal or Halifax, evidently. Sigh.
ETA: yup, not even Monkey's Paw, which means whoever guided him through Toronto did not do their job. Sigh.

suzisteffen I‘m a fan of Munro‘s in Victoria, myself. 😉 (To be fair, it‘s the only book store I‘ve been to in Canada.) 5y

xicanti Booooooo. 5y

tournevis @suzisteffen Never been, yet I've heard of it. Like, yeah. 5y

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tournevis @xicanti I know. 5y

rabbitprincess And the World's Biggest Bookstore doesn't even exist anymore 😕 I'd vote for Russell Books in Victoria to be added to the list, myself. 5y

tournevis @rabbitprincess Sounds good to me. 5y

tournevis @rabbitprincess The book is for 2013 5y

suzisteffen @rabbitprincess oooh good point, I lied above - I‘ve also been to that one. 📚📚📚 5y

tournevis @suzisteffen I think I went to World's Biggest, but I'm not sure, big sprawling bookstores all look the same in my head. 5y

suzisteffen @tournevis I hear that. I know I went to the huge one in Oxford, but in my head, it‘s mixed up with The Strand and Powell‘s (and that one huge one in Berkeley that closed a few years ago, SOB). 5y

tournevis @suzisteffen I remember Powell's as distinct, because I remember the people 5y

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

1️⃣ Tagged
2️⃣ It's been so long, I don't remember.
3️⃣ No idea. I plan to be done with tagged before then.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

rachelsbrittain Thanks for joining in 💜 5y

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

I did not know that. In the Harry Potter movies, Flourish & Blotts is not a set piece. It's a real Porto bookstore, Livraria Lello & Irmão. Wow.

julesG Another reason to visit Porto. Also, my mind just went in a very strange beeline: entrance to Diagonally behind Charing Cross Road? But the door to the Leaky Cauldron of the films is in Leadenhall Market! Oh, erm, yes, that's right. 🙈🙈🙈 5y

tournevis @julesG Details, details... 5y

Lcsmcat But is it behind 84 Charing Cross Rd? 😆 5y

tournevis @Lcsmcat That'd be nice! 😆 If I am to believe the author, in a previous chapter, that's a no. 5y

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Librerias | Jorge Carrion

Enjoying it. It's interesting, following his travels and perigrinations in book stores all over the planet. So very like Manguel or Eco for libraries, but so unlike them as well. Where they are profound and erudite, he is impressionistic and knowledgeable, and perhaps a smidge casually racist as well. He has not said anything yet that makes me want to fling my reader to the wall. But why can't a Hungarian become Turkish if he wants to?

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tournevis

Librerias | Jorge Carrion

I'm home! Yeah! I had missed my own bed!

Also, the dog hurt his hip this morning. Or maybe I did. He was lying on the back of the sofa behind me and I reached back to give scritches, but he screamed in pain and has been limping ever since. Guess who's going to the vet tomorrow (closed today).

Reading tagged (in French translation).

BiblioLitten Aww I hope he feels better. 💕 5y

rabbitprincess Poor guy! I hope the vet can sort things out tomorrow. Also, welcome home! 5y

tournevis @BiblioLitten @rabbitprincess I really hope it's just a sprain or something. 5y

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wanderinglynn Aw, poor baby. I hope he feels better soon! 💚🐶💚 5y

julesG Poor little one, hope he's better soon. 5y

Eyelit 💚🐶💚 5y

Leftcoastzen He is so cute! 5y

tournevis @Leftcoastzen That, he is!!! 5y

tournevis @wanderinglynn @Eyelit I'll know tomorrow 5y

LeahBergen Poor guy! 5y

tournevis @LeahBergen He's not having it easy these days! 5y

CouronneDhiver La malchance de pauvre mr igrec 5y

tournevis @CouronneDhiver Sans arrêt! 5y

tracey38 Aww, poor pup! I hope it's nothing serious and he feels better soon. 5y

tournevis @tracey38 Making an apt tomorrow. 5y

tracey38 @tournevis keep us updated! 5y

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