Look at these bookshops!

    So Many Books posted the link to these pictures of amazing bookshops - have a look (but watch out for the scary cat!). The Lello in Portugal is particularly interesting, I think, and there's more on it in this guide to European bookstores  - now I have to revise the scale of my dream shop to incorporate that staircase.

Comments

[Juxtabook]

Gosh, isn't The Lello fabulous. Despite living in a 'virtual' bookstore, I do somtimes hanker after the bricks and mortar variety. That staircase is wonderful and puts to shame the steep concrete and stone affair that is the entry into our book storage room!

[Dark Puss]

Hmm, not the most beautiful of cats I'll agree (certainly when compared to my gorgeous avatar), but how can anyone say that they are scary? I think I passed, but did not go in to, that SF bookshop in SF many years ago. I certainly did find in that city a charming little specialist bokshop (W may dimly remember a present I brought for him from it) which had the most lovely little kitty guarding it!

[Jennifer Dee]

I'm in book heaven. How I would love to just be in one of those book shops. I also love the link to different bookmarks. Thank you for this link; whenever I'm feeling blue I shall just link into these photos and I know it will cheer me up.

[Barbara MacLeod]

I spent so long following all those wonderful links that I nearly forgot to come back and say "Thanks!" for a most interesting tour.

Last year when I was in Wigtown (Scotland) at their Book Festival I recall there being about half a dozen bookshops along their main street all with "character"!

[Margaret Powling]

I want to visit all of them. NOW! But please, someone knit that cat a coat!

[Mr Cornflower]

Lindsay will remember from the 1970s a bookshop in the older part of Southampton whose street address bore the number 2 1/2 ...but I can't remember it's name or the street name. Like the address the place itself was definitely a bit eccentric.