Category: books
Maison Assouline, London
Another post on bookstores. Assouline is a publisher of books that serve as luxury lifestyle accessories. They are based in New York but the flagship store is in London, opened in 2014. We were in London during Christmas 2018. The store is situated between two other book-lovers destinations – Hatchards and Waterstones – mainstream bookstores.…
Amazon Books, Walnut Creek
We have posted on this blog many pictures of bookstores, and lamented the fact that brick-and-mortar bookstores are becoming rare and possibly extinct in certain cities. In the US, this trend is driven largely by the advent of e-books sold online. Amazon started their global online business with this retail concept. By chance, we came…
“Their Morocco” by Mehdi de Graincourt
This is our last post on Morocco which we visited in January/February 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe and Africa. The tourism industry suffered enormously worldwide. We hope the lodgings and services we had enjoyed can bounce back quickly in 2021. We close this series with a softback coffee-table book I picked up…
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Two weeks of vacation was a good chunk of time for me (Chris) to start and perhaps finish a book. For this trip to Morocco, my selection was this classic – The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, published in 1949. I knew about this book first from the soundtrack for the 1990 movie made by…