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.
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 wife. She never entered these spaces without being invited, which on occasion led to some surprises.This is a writing...
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 places. Here a 'room of one's own' is complemented by pervasive love. 'Now I am married to Elaine and in two days we are...
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 curious about his wife's assumption that while he would have liked and mastered them, he'd probably have stuck with...
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 - I hope someone picked it up and read it. So I bought another copy of the same edition as it had a foreword by...
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
water is…
One bitingly cold morning I was crossing a square in central Liverpool, and noticed some words on the ground. I followed them, and discovered a...
In quest of lost libraries
For me the world of books and libraries has a shadow world of those lost or destroyed. Surely someone could write a novel about them? Meanwhile it...
Librarian as satrap
Having known nothing but kindness among librarians, this striking description of a martinet guarding his books almost at the point of a gun is...
A sensible sort of room
The boy slips out of a deadly dull afternoon tea in which two ladies are talking about clothing. He finds himself in the book-lined library next...
A café in Porto
I have never been to this café but would love to spend a morning there writing postcards and reading newspapers. I came across this beautiful black...
How to build a library … Alexandrian style
The Library of Alexandria had 30-50 state-funded scholars and agents scouring the Mediterranean for new books. It's believed that by the first...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England. Built in 1688, it burned down in 1900 and was...
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