geekysteven

I want rival booksellers engaging in daring daylight raids, blatant and enthusiastic burglaries snatching books back-and-forth between neighboring shops on opposite sides of the street - except there's always a truce in any shop if sunlight is falling just-so over a reading nook. Then everything stops for a sturdy read, a few strong sips and maybe a snack.

I want bookshops where the preferred means of marking the passage of time, is watching regulars come through the door: to browse, to buy, to "borrow".

I want bookshops run by people who seem to merge with the terroir of the Bookshop, at once part of the furniture and gliding wraith-like between the stacks. I want Bookshops that murmur and hum their affection for their purveyors through their ducts and floorboards.