If a book lover is a bibliophile, what is a library lover? I don’t know the word (or if it exists) but I am one, and here I share images of libraries and other places which invite you to read and write, including book shops, cafés and easy chairs.
Czech books
We recently spent ten days in the glorious city of Prague. Among other delights, we found a few fine books, including one to add to the collection of 1000 myths, legends and folk or fairy tales to read in the coming decade, and a book of Czech recipes for my husband...
The library at Tyntesfield
Ever in quest of dream libraries, I was delighted to discover this National Trust article on their collections and libraries, including this photo of the library at Tyntesfield in North Somerset. Look at that vaulting roof, inviting you to gaze up and have...
An inviting writing table
As you know I have a penchant for places which foster the timeless absorption of concentrated reading or writing, or just looking out the window, thinking, or allowing your eye to roam across shelf-stretches of book spines to see if your inner-tuitive librarian...
My kind of library – Rijksmuseum
Love this library and will book a morning there to read and write when we make it to the Rijksmuseum. Enjoy this short virtual tour, and remember:You have two eyes and but one mouthLet this be a signal and take heedNot to talk here, but to read.Now, isn't that better...
Throughout the library, there is an energy and a joy that, in too many other rare books and manuscripts libraries, almost always remains suppressed.
Matthew Battles – Library: An Unquiet History
A sunny spot to read
I fell in love with this room when I saw this sunlit painting. The Victorian artist has captured a perfect cosy, bright spot for reading, in a...
The perfect spot, finally
From the multiple versions described by his wife, it seems it took many years and experiments for John Steinbeck to settle on the...
Writing on wheels
Another in a series of accounts by John Steinbeck's wife, Elaine, of his perpetual search for the perfect writing space. This bright...
Of centuries and cows
These quirky comments by Steinbeck charmed me - first his reaction to the first room he chose to work in, and then his decision to move...
Of boats and books
Another example of Steinbeck's search for a perfect writing spot, in different houses, places, times of his life, as described by his...
All you need is love
Another description by Steinbeck's widow of yet another of his writing spaces, which comprised mostly rooms but some other curious...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so I was...
When did you begin?
Recently I read an old penny-paperback of The Grapes of Wrath. I was about three-quarters of the way through when I left it on a plane...
Basilicata bibliomotocarro
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, converted a quintessential Italian vehicle, the three-wheeler micro-van, into a travelling...
A visit to the Palladio Library
We visited the Palladio Museum in a suitable palazzo down a charming side street in Vicenza. Only by chance on our way out, we peeked...
A wilderness of books
This vast languishing resource was first brought home to me in Erik Reinert's How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries...
A writer’s retreat
We first noticed it when it was still a construction site, but even on a grimly dank and overcast day, there was something about this...
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