Chatting Books Online Day 174. Today's recommended book is a favorite of all those "I love a bookstore" folks that come into the store. It is "Footnotes* from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers" by Bob Eckstein. It combines beautiful watercolors of bookshops from around the world with a bit of information and a vignet about eac one in a lovely format. Whether it is a story about an artist walking into a bookstore and rearranging all the books by color to present art by book or the story of Anne Rice arriving at a New Orleans bookstore in a horse drawn hearse behind a jazz funeral procession the stories are sure to delight as much as the paintings.
The only negative things I can say about this delightful book is that I cannot figure out the order (not alpha, not by area as far as I can tell etc but there is a Table of Contents so it's OK), and the fact that we were not included. In fairness it was published only months after we opened almost 5 years ago so I like to think that is the only reason for the ommission!
This Hardcover book is 175 pages and sells for $22 a copy.
To purchase a copy of this book come see us Mondays - Saturdays between 10:30am and 4pm at the shop, or you can message me and we can ship a copy directly to you. Take Care, Mask Up, and Visit a Bookstore !
