Paul McNally started a small bookstore in a place called Winnepeg, Manitoba many years ago. His second store came to where I live and then he branched out to several other places. It's a bookstore that is like a specialisted Barnes and Nobles. I went looking for a few books and I took some pictures many I am sure were wondering what I was doing but there was a time back that there were a few writers that I actually did set up and make some calls for as there writings were superb and they were writing and placing on amazon, but they were not getting the sales that they wished. As there now is a store in Manhattan I figured that I would lend a hand to some back a few years ago and one is within their stores with her book. The database of this bookstore actually had them within there data base.
Regardless of that I enjoyed the time and I got lost within the books as I love this place so much.
http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/home
It must have been lovely wandering through that small store Jack, I love doing that too. You never know what treasures you will find among those many book shelves.
ReplyDeleteIt's 5,000 sq.ft on two levels and it's grand. You just get lost in it...
ReplyDelete... perhaps I would never emerge...
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ReplyDeleteI love getting lost in eclectic bookstores like this. We have a nice one in Ashland--Bloomsbury Books--that is perhaps like this in miniature. I have to say the 20 below temperatures sound so daunting I might not want to leave until closing time. Burrrr! The worst we generally get around here is 20 above :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah Doug what would a town be without a bookstore regardless of size. Yeah I know your not as cold here we are in are peak of the cold climate right now but effectively today's date, which is Sunday we will have a nice warm -7 as a high.
ReplyDeleteI love the big bookstores and can totally lose track of the time when I am in one; however!......I miss the days of the smaller bookstores, the ones the big boys drove out of business. Oh, there are still a few around, but they are not all that profitable to the owners that I have talked to.
ReplyDeleteI do as well Sue, I recall when I was 14 and I forget the name of the bookstore that was in Syracuse,NY. And how I would ride my bike to get to the "Penn Can Mall" and within it there was a privately owned bookstore of about only 1,000 sq.ft. Maybe this too has something to do with why our economy has went the way it has. Everything became "Walmartized"...
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