Right down the street from my apartment is a great book shop. It's not a big box/big name shop. Nope, it's a small, locally owned, non-chain, bookshop. It actually put the Barnes and Noble down the block out of business!
I love walking past there everyday and taking a look at all the different books they have in the shop windows. If I have time I typically just walk in and browse the stacks, just because!
It has such a great feel. Wooden shelves lined with books. It smells like books, that great homey freshly printed book smell. One of my favorite parts of the whole shop is the ladders along most of the shelves and the amazing lighting they have all over the ceiling. Such an eclectic mix - it is just perfect.
My favorite section to browse is the cookbook section. I love looking for inspiration and the pictures in the volumes are mouth watering. The New Cook's Illustrated cookbook is such a fun read, I swooned while reading it!
And, I cannot forget the children's section! It is so darling and I too can get lost in the amazing little corner of the shop dedicated to the youngest readers. I have bought many a book for Noam here, well, and for me too!
The shop is always full. Full of people, full of life, full of curiosity. It is amazing to think that in all these books there is something for everyone. A different genre, a different adventure, a different story to get lost in.
I just love having this shop so close to my home. I love that the community has supported this great shop and that so many people share my love of a good book. Without a doubt, I will always have something to read as long as the Booksmith is down the blog from me!
This looks like a fantastic bookstore. How lucky you live so close.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a great bookstore!
ReplyDeleteI still have not yet to get pictures of stores like this with my camera i feel strange. Kudos to you ;).
Looks like a wonderful place! I love to browse through books. It's great that a local place was able to compete!
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible book(smith) store...lucky you!
ReplyDeleteOh yes- we would get along so well. I LOVE bookstores & could spend forever in there. What a great place!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I love book shops like this. And I know exactly what you mean about the "smell"....it's like home to me. And you would find ME in either the cookbook or travel section :)
ReplyDeleteI love book shops and have done so since I was a kid - my stomach always tingles when I enter! :-)
ReplyDeleteyeah to the small business owner!
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Such fun, I love bookstores like this as well. (And I think it's cool you buy Children's books for yourself... I thought I was the only one who did that.)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I could get lost in there too. I love hanging out at Barnes and Noble (that's all we have here; all the independents have closed shop) and adore the smell of books too. Love it. You are lucky to have such a treasure.
ReplyDeleteThis place sounds wonderful. There is something so delightful about bookstores. I try to use the library, but it's much better to own your own.
ReplyDeletebookstores are one of my favorite places on the planet!
ReplyDeletethis place sound fun. enjoying :D
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I too love a mooch in a bookshop. Since I have 2 kiddies its rare I get to enjoy it, but it makes the times I do even more precious now x
ReplyDeleteI love cookbook section, too! Now I'm reading a book on my computer and it's not the same as the old schoold paper version!!!
ReplyDeleteI could lose myself in a good bookstore. When we visited Powell's Books in OR, I wanted to move to OR right there and then!
ReplyDeleteThey put Barnes and Nobles out of business? That is absolutely incredible! And wonderful! LOVE that!
ReplyDeleteI love our local businesses. And your bookstore sounds so perfectly charming!
ReplyDeleteI am also cracking up at your last line... about having a bookstore just down the "blog" from you. Hee hee! :)