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Inspiring and reflecting stories about the importance of our libraries, bookstores and reading.

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much Lisa for the wonderful #spookoween prize package. I love everything and can‘t wait to use it all!

I loved Der Buchspazierer! It has been translated into many languages including English with the title The Door-to-Door Bookstore, but I don‘t know if the translations would completely capture the charm of the original. (Sometimes translations are spot on, but not always! I‘ve learned to appreciate that art as well.) This was the delightful book that I needed to end 2024 before turning the page to a new year.

Also a Christmas book - this is the book I wish I could've written! Oh well, I can still emulate the research!

My June pick for #12BooksOf2024 is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. I am totally here for all this cozy translated bookshop fiction, and this one in particular would go very well with a coffee.

Transplants from Vermont,Molly & her mom Nina join their Aunt Violet in the family bookshop in Cambridge England,in an endeavor to bring the bookstore out of the red.Molly succeeds in bringing the bookstore into 21st-century,creating a website,social media posting “Wild Adventures,” pics of Sylvia Plath,Byron Wordsworth,Saint Hildegard of Binge.They host Persephone,England‘s premiere poet.Betrayal, deceit & murder up the game to new heights.

This was my first read from this author. Yet another person‘s books I should be reading more of.

#ChristmasCheer @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

A humorous look at the world of an antiquarian book shop and the people who work there. This one is a quick read, broken into anecdotes from the author's time at the shop. I bought it mostly for the beautiful cover a few years ago and finally got it read for my December #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

December 23rd #ChristmasCheer Mistletoe #WinterGames24 #HolidayRomanceBingo @StayCurious @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks