debbieliuhoo:

harryh:

mattlehrer:

werdsmiffery:

The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World

Foursquare list waiting to happen.

https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world

:)

Bookstores have been and always will be my hideaway. I browse slowly in them when I’m content, I hide in them when I’m upset, I wander in them when I want to lose myself. True story, I blacked out and ran away crying from my friends one night in DC…straight to Kramerbooks where I hid in bookshelves until someone convinced me to come home.

If I had wings, or if i was Ironman, I’d fly to one of these a weekend and spend 48 hours exploring each one. If only I could get married in a bookstore and give each guest a book suited entirely to his (or her) taste and ask them to just read. For at least a day.

Well, if I was Ironman, I could just build my own beautiful bookstore and get married in it, but I’d also be a man.

I want to visit all of these so badly.

And wow, you are pretty much my soulmate, Debbie. Two reasons.

1) While interning at Conde Nast the summer after my senior year, my friends would go out in Murray Hill and inevitably head south towards Meatpacking. Usually I’d go along, but a few times, I decided instead to browse tipsily through the $1 racks at the Strand, one of my favorite places on earth. Once, I ended up lugging 15 books (including a first-edition Gourmet cookbook weighing 6 pounds) all the way back to my place in Gramercy.

2) I used to tell my high school friends that I wanted to get married in the Barnes & Noble nearby, because there are two huge escalators that look over aisles and aisles of books. I would ride up the escalator (to the kids’ section) and there my groom would be, waiting for me amongst all of the romance novels. That’s why I loved Carrie’s pick for wedding venue in the SATC movie, so so much.

Big and I would be married
in the classic New York landmark...

  
...that housed all the great love stories.