Category: books

  • Waterstones Piccadilly, London

    While I (Chris) was visiting JL in London, I wandered into Waterstone on Piccadilly.  As some of you might have noticed on this blog, I like visiting bookstores and have been photographing them. If you want to see the other bookstores, just click on the tag bookstore on your left. Some of the information I have included

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  • Bückermarkt, Köln

    I enjoy visiting bookstores. Several posts here are dedicated to the bookstores I have visited in other cities. For example, MIT Press bookstore in Boston and Livraria Cultura in Iguatemi, Saõ Paulo. This is my second post on a bookstore in Köln. The first one on Siebter Himmel is here. Warning: there are only photos of books

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  • Siebter Himmel, Köln

    I visited two very different bookstores in Cologne. Located in the Belgian Quarter (Belgisches Viertel), see our earlier post about the area here. Siebter Himmel means Seventh Heaven. It was quite a surprising discovery since I had no idea of what it was supposed to be when I first walked in. Is it a bookstore,

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  • Livraria Cultura @ Shopping Iguatemi, São Paulo

    Livraria Cultura @ Shopping Iguatemi, São Paulo

    This is the third bookstore that I came across in my two-and-a half-day stay in São Paulo. This Livraria Cultura is situated in one of the more luxury shopping malls in town (Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton are its neighbors). Like the shop they have in downtown on Avenida Paulista (see my post here), the entrance

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