Flavorwire did a piece on 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores. I would to love to be a kid reading in one of these nooks at Poplar Kid’s Republic, Beijing, China. I would love to be there as a adult now.
From Flavorwire’s 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World. Hard to choose my favorite since all of them are really cool.
The New York Public Library, the hugely famous one with the big lions. I love studying at this beautiful library even with the tourists shuffling through, the random fights that I’ve seen break out among questionable folks with undiagnosed psychiatric illnesses, and the interesting people often in costume for what I imagine are superhero themed parties on any given day. Last week, a man sat across from me, put his huge suitcase on the table, opened it and took out one tiny book. On top of wearing his Coke bottle eyeglasses, his nose grazed the pages as he read. I can’t imagine the font size of this book, but I really had wanted to give him a magnifying glass to help him enjoy his smallish novel.
"Take the world apart and figure out how it works." - Built to Spill, 1994.
