Another bookmark has turned up. Curiously, this bookstore has the same address as Blue Whale. Now, I’ve only been to Charlottesville once. Google Maps says Blue Whale is there now, so I must have visited when it was still Seanchai and the Blue Whale came to me later, tucked inside a used book.
Last week, I finally made it to Subtext Books in downtown St Paul for the first time. Absolutely one of the best bookstores I’ve ever been to.
Another bookmark for the series.
I just found this in a book I bought during my only visit to Elliott Bay Books (and to Seattle), in 2014.
Another bookmark just resurfaced, this time from Blue Whale in Charlottesville, where I spent some time in the summer of 2000.
I found this in a used book I bought recently. The bookstore is still around.
This just turned up in an old book.
Later replaced by Borders, which also closed (sometime in the aughts?) and Kitchen Window expanded into the space. Kitchen Window, in turn, didn’t survive the pandemic…
This just turned up in an old book. Long gone. The Aster Café is there now.
I found this in a book I just pulled off the shelf. The website is still live, mostly, but it doesn’t seem to be a brick & mortar shop anymore.
I found this yesterday in, I’m guessing, the book that I bought there in the spring of 2001.
A little research shows it closed some time after it moved from Montague St in Brooklyn Heights to Smith St in Brooklyn.
This morning, I went inside a bookstore for the first time since January 2020. I picked up part of an online order, I browsed, and I bought a few more books. It was almost normal.
And, of course, I grabbed a pinch of bookmarks.
