A place to get lost in
My idea of a bookshop or library to get lost in ... though not exclusively. I also love some of...
Doors opening wherever she turned
Alan Bennett was born in Leeds and I liked this quotation chalked on a board in a café there.  It's...
Truly cultured, at last!
Although I never lose the desire for books, there have been moments when I felt overwhelmed by the unread ones, whether...
Beware educated peasants
Naive readers may imagine that an ideology ostensibly serving the masses might have been glad to encounter an educated peasant. ...
The Magic Ink-Pot
Always on the hunt for treasures among forgotten children's books, I came across this one by chance when I was...
A capacious book thief
Steinbeck and Robert Capa spent a month in the Soviet Union. It took some time for Steinbeck to cotton on...
Fuel for the body or mind?
Book burning, or bibliocide, is usually something we associate with ideologues, political or religious, fearful of the free flow of...
Culling of books …
I sometimes feel like this when we go to the flea market in Geneva and survey a lifetime's worth of...
Shelebrate with a shelfie
With a nod to the British Library which introduced me to the idea of the 'shelfie', a photo featuring a...
Wishing you a happy jólabókaflóð!
This lovely word is Icelandic for 'Christmas book flood'. As you may know, Iceland is home to the world's most...
Now we are six (II)
Dear Kind Reader,
Firstly, happy St Jordi's Day, the Valentine's Day of booklovers.  And this year, the 23 April lands...
On the culling of books
I have long put off writing this post because I have an aversion to it. Â A while back I bought...
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