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Simone F

Simone F

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I usually feel guilty for immersing myself into a good book because I feel like there are other, more important things that I should be doing. Anyone in favour of an eight day week, three of which make up a weekend?
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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I had to be early at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square this morning. By the time I left the shops still weren't open, so I walked down by the Grovenor Chapel and along Curzon Street past Heywood Hill's. I con only admire their books through the widow! Grrrrr! I breakfasted at The Wolseley reading Admiral Beaufort's biography. By Berry & Rudd's were open, so the only possible reading was a wine label!
    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Well.................. I think the Independent New Book shops are few now........... I guess the price margins and rents are beating them. I knew one named Browsers at Stoneygate that closed relatively recently. There are a few shops that pretend to be bookshops/cafes. However they have very few books - there's one near where I live and I only went in once. I know a few shops that seem to be able to mix new and secondhand books - Scarthin Books at Cromford would be one - it has a good tea-room also. Daunt's is independent, I guess - however it's quite large. Persephone presses on against the odds..........

    http://www.scarthinbooks.com/ http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/ http://thepersephoneforum.co.uk/

    Do you like H.E.Bates?

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    A London 'Village' that I quite like to have lunch or afternoon tea in is Primrose Hill. There is good 'new' bookshop there, however it always has a shelf of second-hand books out the front. The Russian Tea-Rooms and Ian Makin's are worth stopping a while in!
    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Actually, my favourite bookstore in London is of course, Heywood Hill.

    http://www.heywoodhill.com/

    Yours?

    Regards, MIchael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    The Lambs Conduit Persephon Shop has lecture, book discussions etc. Worth going. Shame they closed the Kensington Persephone recently.

    http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/events.asp

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    You have the Persephone edition of MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAYon your shelf. When in London I often visit their office in Lamb's Conduit. Did you see the film of this book? I thought it was great - slightly offline, but great!
    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    It's been a long time since I read any of Alan garner's books. The thing I most remember of them is their atmosphere........ quietly surreal, misty? Sometimes if I have to go to Manchester Airport, I drive back over Alderly Edge. In the fog (or cloud on the ground), it always seems an other-worldy place.........
    I looked at the book 1,000 ARTIST TRADING CARDS that you'ved recently added. I guess there are only two ways to have your Visiting Card - minimalist, engraved black-on-white or over-the-top, grab the recipient's attention. Anthing between makes you a plumbers-merchant sales-man, handing round his card at dinner-parties! I subscribe to a magazine named VICTORIA which has published a book of business-cards and whenever I see a Design Book with this theme, it catches my attention. Mine are minimalilst, by the way!

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    More important than reading?????????????? This from a woman with THE OWL SERVICE on her shelf????????????

    Surely not?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )

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