Category: books

  • Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur

    Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur

    A few more posts about Malaysia … My regular readers know that I(Chris) like taking pictures of bookstores and have been posting them online, for example:  Alexandre in Budapest, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, MIT Press in Boston, Waterstones in London. As we were wandering in KL’s celebrated shopping mall – Suria KLCC, we found this massive…

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  • Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest

    Back in fall 2014, we spent a long weekend in Budapest, Hungary.  We have a couple more posts on this city before we put up photos from our Malaysian trip. While strolling along Andrássy út (Budapest’s Fifth Avenue), we came across this building with a rather impressive facade. The combination of art nouveau motifs and…

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  • Írók Boltja, Budapest

    Írók Boltja (Writers’ Bookshop) is located on the busy corner of Andrássy street No. 45 and Liszt Ferenc square. It is just down the street from the gigantic Alexandra (see later post). The store is special because it has a history of more than a hundred years, always connected to writers and poets, and played…

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  • 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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