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“Ex Libris”
“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 …
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What makes a new book so special?
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 …
In short, I was afraid: Ode to J. Alfred Prufrock
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 …
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Making Resolutions 2021
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. …
How Does Joy Arrive?
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 …
Franklin Dixon’s Hardy Boys: Now and Then
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 …
A Young Woman’s Diary By Any Other Name
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 …
A Gift – The Thoughtful Gift this December
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…