Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company

There seems to be magic steeped in the foundation of this bookstore. Or maybe it comes from the books themselves.

Where I find English books in South Korea

Where I find English books in South Korea

With the slow death of the indie bookstores I use to frequent I tend to now go to a used bookstore chain that has become my favorite.

Book street underground Eslite

Book street underground Eslite

Decided to kill some time at an underground bookstore, ended up going home with books and postcards and fangirling over some printing presses and type.

Poor Richard’s Books

Poor Richard’s Books

After lunch we headed into Frankfort for a little bit of shopping. While mom checked out antiques one of my sisters and I popped into the bookstore. A small, crammed with books style indie shop with $1 literary buttons at the cash register and a cute kids corner with a fish tank. They're speciality is [...]

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

I know my family is one of bookworms, but I didn't realize just how bad our bookworm nature was until this trip. Somehow my eldest sister managed to include at least one trip to a different bookstore per day, and at most three. As a person with limited space in my luggage this was torture. [...]

Mitsuwa

Mitsuwa is a Japanese marketplace in the suburbs of Chicago at 100 East Algonquin Road  in Arlington Heights. There are several other Mitskwa's spread out in California and one in New Jersey. Mitsuwa includes a bookstore, video shop, grocery, food court, and bakery. On weekends they tend to have special events. Books Kinokuniya I always [...]

Watkins Books

After spending some time drinking tea and still too early for our tour my cousin and I wandered around for a bit and decided to check out a bookstore, since we had passed a few. We ended up at Watkins Books an old esoteric bookshop. The independent bookstore opened in 1893 and focuses on the [...]

Virginia-Shops in Staunton

One late afternoon we headed back to Stanton to see a show, but we arrived early so that we could explore downtown a bit. The Dragon's Hoard 17 East Johnson StreetThe Dragon's Hoard caught me by the title. It's near Pufferbellies and sells board games, cards, modeling supplies, dice and other gaming supplies. Pufferbellies: Toys [...]

The Book Cellar

The Book Cellar is an independent bookstore located at 4736 North Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square. The Book Cellar is another one of those bookshops my department talks about a lot. They tend to be the bookstore selling books at author events, especially ones at Storyweek. I went with a friend to just check it [...]