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This is a light pick for me. I enjoyed it but didn‘t love it. I appreciated the early history of how bookstores developed in the U.S. and found the stories of well-known independent bookstores interesting. However, this is an incredibly broad topic, and hearing about a few specific bookstores I know or have visited just made me want to learn of more variety for my list.

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I listened to the audiobook, and I loved it. I love the character and quirk he brings to antiquarian book selling. Like the categories of customers—Smaug, Vampire, Book Runner, Cryptid, Spindleman, Ancient, and Suited Gentlemen. Very funny and lively take on it.

I really enjoyed this book. It's a bit of a niche subject, discussing the history of bookshelves and book storage. However, it's written well enough that it maintains interest. The author mixes some personal experiences with historical references in the book. Overall, definitely recommend.

her nose in a book,
she craved a quiet nook — to
get lost in its world. 📚

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[Robert, Count de Montesquiou] realized that German idea of making your life a work of art: a gesamtkunstwerk.

...he made his upstairs flat over-looking the Seine into 'the mirror of my soul', exotically furnished with japonisme and books. Many of us look around our dwelling and see...a series of shabby compromises, half-loved inherited junk, broken things, lingering IKEA tat ...and does anyone, hand-on-heart, have the curtains they really want?

Resting by the books

...a Mexican, Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-95).... Her grandfather loved books, and in his house she taught herself to read and write Latin before she was five. Greek followed soon afterwards and as an adolescent she learned Aztec... she collected books and continued to educate herself....

Reading, she argued, should be a habit shared among women... 'we can perfectly well philosophize whilst cooking dinner'.

... the great Persian scholar al-Sahib ibn Abbad (d. 995). The Emir of Persia offered him the plum job of running the empire's most important province, Khorasan, but he declined on the grounds that it would take 400 camels to move his personal library.

...he encouraged the establishment of state libraries in Qom, Isfahan and Tehran, the latter containing 200,000 books.

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What am I #grateful for? Every year at Thanksgiving we take turns saying one thing we are thankful for & for many years now my answer has been: books. It is of course, the characters, entertainment & wisdom that they have provided. Friends, really 💙 Also, all the wonderful connections I have made in the nearly decade (!!) I have been on Litsy, the best social media site for talking about books.
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