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“Ex Libris”: Why This Matters Bookplates and their Meaning Curating one’s library is an ongoing process. Personal collections are living, breathing entities. If you are an active reader, staying current …
“Ex Libris”: Why This Matters Bookplates and their Meaning Curating one’s library is an ongoing process. Personal collections are living, breathing entities. If you are an active reader, staying current …
The Scent of New Books Many people stop in and ask if we can take their old books. We wish we could (we don’t) and we are absolutely sure that …
T.S. Eliot for VDay I’m not exactly sure why without fail Elvis Costello’s “My Comic Valentine” pops into my head every February. Humming Richard Rodgers’ lyrics, believing in Costello’s rendition …
In short, I was afraid: Ode to J. Alfred Prufrock Read More »
Kingston, Rhode Island Train Station: A Good Place for Embarking Somewhere along the line I stopped writing down my resolutions. Perhaps life got too busy trying to keep them. …
This Advent This is my second December as a retailer and it can not be more different than 2019. Last year, Lauren Classey organized an amazing Fifth Annual Charlestown …
I get your drift, Joe. I have lived with your drift for years. I am saddled with your drift. -Franklin W. Dixon It was an unusually hot day at the …
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you …
In early December the bookstore already glowed in the splendor and scent of Christmas. The town’s holiday ramblers streamed in at four o’clock and received their purchases wrapped with snow-ball ribbon, nautical twine or thick red grosgrain…