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Books Are Magic
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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Books Are Magic
225 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231 USA
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JillR
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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An explanation to the backdrop of my last post; we just got back from New York! New York Littens, we fell hard for your city ❤️. It was a jam-packed trip - the first visit for our two teenagers - but I managed a *little* book shopping. I was disappointed with Barnes and Noble, but the lovely Books are Magic in Brooklyn made up for that; I spent a wonderful hour or two browsing and buying, so absorbed I missed the earthquake!

squirrelbrain Ooh so jealous! It‘s aaages since I‘ve been to New York and I miss it. (And its bookshops!) 7mo
JillR @squirrelbrain we were last there 22 years ago and loved taking the kids back. Such a great trip (despite near biblical rain, earthquakes etc 😬) 7mo
squirrelbrain I can‘t believe you missed the earthquake! 🤪 7mo
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JillR @squirrelbrain we got all the emergency alerts on our phones but didn‘t feel a thing! 7mo
BethM This picture looks magical! 7mo
Kitta Glad you had a good time! I live in Brooklyn but have never been to Books are Magic (I‘ll go soon!!). There‘s a really great feminist bookshop near me called 7mo
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Chelsea.Poole
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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Made it to Books Are Magic in Brooklyn today 🙌
My angelic sister in law escorted my butt all across the city to fulfill all my bookish dreams ♥️📚🥰
I loved reading all the staff recs. I‘ll tag a few in the comments from this Staff Picks photo below ⬇️

Chelsea.Poole Some of these I‘ve never heard of, which I love and I‘ll spent some time investigating. This is one I didn‘t know about prior: 10mo
Chelsea.Poole On my tbr already 10mo
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IndoorDame Staff recs are definitely the best thing about hiking out to brick and mortar indie bookshops! 10mo
AmyG Sounds like you are having a wonderful trip. 10mo
Leftcoastzen Yay! 10mo
TheBookHippie Yay!!! 10mo
TheKidUpstairs @Chelsea.Poole Ghost in the Throat is sooooo good! 10mo
LiteraryinPA Looks like a great store! 10mo
Billypar Very nice! I love traveling and visiting new bookstores and NYC has a lot of great ones. 10mo
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AnneCecilie
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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The first bookstore we visited was Books are Magic and we went to their store at 122 Montague St which turned out to be the perfect starting point for a visit to Brooklyn Heights.

We had a little misunderstanding with the taxi driver, because who visits a bookstore? So he drove a little further down the road and we discovered a fantastic viewpoint of the financial district and Brooklyn Bridge.

Loved the bookstore as well.

Liz_M You're in NYC! Waves from Brooklyn. 14mo
AnneCecilie @Liz_M Back home now. Loved the parts of Brooklyn that I saw. 14mo
HeatherBookNerd Oooh, I loved This Time Tomorrow 14mo
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MemoirsForMe Best way to vacation…exploring new bookstores! 😍🙌🏻 14mo
RamsFan1963 I loved An Immense World. It's one of the best books I've read this year. 14mo
AnneCecilie @HeatherBookNerd I‘ve seen a lot of love for this one. I think she owns these bookshops so I thought it would be fun to buy her book in her store. But the premise sounds great as well 14mo
AnneCecilie @UwannaPublishme Especially when they have books in a language you can read and there buy books. I find it less fun when I visit countries where I don‘t speak the language. 14mo
AnneCecilie @RamsFan1963 That sounds promising. This is the one of the books I bought that I hadn‘t heard of before, but the premise sounds great. 14mo
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Mitch
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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Thanks for the advice Books Are Magic ! I feel I must obey! 🤣

Is it too early to ask about Christmas swaps???

DGRachel I placed my Small Business Saturday order with Park Road Books today. 🤣 3y
Crazeedi Early is good!! I haven't heard of any swaps yet, if you do let me know too! And I'll do same 3y
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Aims42 I‘m totally on board with talking Christmas swaps too 😆 USPS shipping has me feeling anxious on top of the supply chain issues 😥 3y
Mitch @DGRachel Yeah - Im off to Harris & Harris books on Saturday with a very long list! 3y
Mitch @Crazeedi Thanks ... dot want to miss anything! 👏 3y
Mitch @Aims42 I know - don't want to get sucked into the scarcity syndrome...but equally don't want to be without books! 😂 3y
Chrissyreadit @Crazeedi @Aims42 @Mitch Creepy Christmas is open for sign ups now, @bookish_wookish is planning Little Christmas and @MaleficentBookDragon is planning jolabokaflod. I have not heard about any others. 3y
Crazeedi @Chrissyreadit thank you Chrissy, I will watch for sign ups! 3y
Aims42 @Chrissyreadit Sweet! Thank you for this!! I‘ll keep an eye out for their posts 🙌🏻 I love @MaleficentBookDragon jokaflod (I will never get the spelling right on it, but it‘s a blast! I‘ve done it the last few years and it adds so much joy to my Christmas time 😍) 3y
Aims42 @Mitch Exactly!!!! 😆 3y
Mitch @Chrissyreadit Thanks Chrissy - xxx 3y
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Tameeka
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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It was a visit your independent bookstore kind of weekend.

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Mitch
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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My print (a coloured illustration of New York‘s Books Are Magic bookstore) has arrived - need to find pride of place to put it now ! #bookishlove

Kalalalatja Pretty! 5y
Mitch @Kalalalatja I was so pleased with it - i love it too! 5y
Blaire Love this! 5y
mrozzz OH WOW!! This is so lovely! 5y
Jee_HookedOnBookz 😍😍😍 5y
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Mitch
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY (Bookstore)
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Oh my goodness... I couldn‘t resist - just bought one of these wonderful coloured illustrations of the amazing Books Are Magic store for the graphic designer David Regone.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/dmregone/

squirrelbrain They are so cool! ❤️ 5y
Mitch @squirrelbrain I love the architectural style 5y
LeahBergen So cool! 5y
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