Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.
This week’s topic is:
Top 10 Bookstores/ Libraries I’ve Always Wanted to Visit!
*Sorry its late -_- I got caught up watching The Greatest Showman last night with my husband… And then I fell down the rabbit hole of watching 478451612235489465 different versions of “This is Me.” lmao
1. The Strand in NYC: With all the signings and authors that come and go to this place, I’m sure this will be on everyone’s list. It looks like a really quaint place that booklovers can go to and find whatever they need for their “fix.”
2. Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, IL: I’ve been to Illinois one time, but I was in Chicago instead. Made me sad that I missed coming to this place. With all the signings and authors that go there, I’m sure to have seen someone. (In fact, the weekend I was there there was a signing. It was for BEA.)
3. New York Public Library: It is MY MISSION to get to New York and see the lions. I share my real name with one of them and I’m a librarian, so this MUST happen sometime. (+10 pts if you know their names and another +10 points if you know which one!) I really want to go while I’m able to have fun, so hopefully this decade I’ll be able to make it happen.
4. Powell’s Books: My friend went once when she visited there and she said it was HUGE.I’ve never been to such a huge bookstore, except maybe when I was in Bookpeople in Austin but she said it was bigger than that!
5. Library of Congress: I saw pictures of the inside of the Library of Congress when I was a little girl and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. I really want to at least once take a walk through there. Fun Fact: At one point, I was saying I was going to be the librarian at the Library of Congress…. Back when I was in kindergarten.
6. The Last Bookstore: Man look at the crazy cool things they have out there! This place is in California and is Cali’s largest used and new book and record store. It’s a really cool place and seems like it would be pretty awesome to even just look around at all they have.
7. Beast’s Library: Call me weird, but I want nothing more than to walk up and down those stairs and find out his sorting system and find out all the things about this super gorgeous library. It’s a really great animation and I’ve always wished that was my own home.
8. A Home Library: I’m not rich by any means, but this is what I want my home library to look like one day. Right now all my books are still on the floor and I have no shelves, but one day soon they’ll be up and ready to go. All that’s left is me getting a ladder………….
9. Flourish and Bott’s: Um let’s be honest, this is more what my house looks like now lmao I haven’t been able to put anything away in a long time. The piles on the floor are equalivalent to what I have all around my house. It’s pretty sad really lol
10. Mary Anne’s Haunted Bookstore: I have no idea who the culprit was because I read this so long ago, but I do remember loving it and loving being scared, so naturally, I really wanted to go there lol
What about you?
What bookstores and libraries would you want to visit?
Did you include any fictional ones like me?!
The Last Bookstore looks pretty cool. If we could go to fictional bookstores, I`d probably go to the one in Stars Hollow.
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