Category: books
Getting Lost in Skoob, London’s Basement Book Maze
Hunting for the best second-hand bookshop in London? Skoob Books in Bloomsbury—tucked beneath the Brunswick Centre near Russell Square—offers one of the city’s broadest selections of used and out-of-print titles. Enjoy a tune while browsing. Bloomsbury has long been London’s intellectual heartland—home to the University of London’s central precinct (Senate House). Surrounded by University College…
Recently Read: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng is a pandemic-era, body-horror ghost story that uses New York’s Chinatown as its backdrop. It blends crime-scene gore with Chinese funerary lore (Hungry Ghost Festival) to indict xenophobia and political apathy. I picked up the book out of curiosity; Zeng is a familiar surname. It’s the first…
Louis Jou ? – a Book-Designer in Provence
We’ve always had a soft spot for books and have shared our favorite bookstores around the world on this blog. So when we discovered a historic book-designer in Provence, we knew it deserved a story of its own. While we were on a walking tour of Les Baux-de-Provence in the Alpilles mountain, northeast of Arles,…
Browsing in Librairie de L’Hôtel de Sully, Paris
During our stay in Paris, we stumbled upon another hidden gem for book lovers in Le Marais—an excellent complement to the Bibliothèque Forney, which we featured in a previous post [here]. Enjoy this while browsing… Nestled within the historic Hôtel de Sully, this discovery is not a public library but rather a one-of-a-kind bookstore in…