Appointments For Adventure 3: Travel Plans This afternoon, I had an appointment. With my husband. We had a ‘meeting’ to decide what to do when we go to Europe in June. You may ask why we haven’t worked that out already, but if you know us, you’ll know that we work on big picture and let the […]
Appointments For Adventure 2: My Nemesis Writers are notorious for writing about the flow of the muse and writers block as the antithesis of each other. I’m having a long-standing battle with my nemesis at the moment—a novel I began in Tuscany in 2010, developed at Oxford in 2013 and worked on at The Art […]
Appointments For Adventure: Be Still After eight days of Bookstore Adventures, I want to continue the 365 Days of Adventure journey with Twenty Appointments For Adventure. Earlier in the year, I wrote about Adventure by Appointment and the idea that if you make an appointment, you will feel accountable. So, over the next twenty days, I’m going […]
City Lights San Francisco Whenever I go to a city, I check out the independent bookstores and make a point of visiting the ones I find intriguing. City Lights Bookstore is such a destination store. I located it on Google Maps and figured out how to get there by cable car and walking. It took me […]
Bookstore Adventures: Scriptum Oxford When I stayed in Oxford at Exeter College, I stepped out into Turl St every morning and walked across the road to the Turl St Kitchen to get my soy latte. Some days when I’d been too lazy to make it to the dining hall, I’d also buy my breakfast there. […]
Each time I visit London, I make a point of exploring the Portobello Road Markets. It is one of the world’s largest antiques markets with over 1,000 dealers selling every kind of antique and collectible. The streets are crowded with visitors from all over the world who are searching one of London’s best loved landmarks for a bargain. Portobello […]
Bookstore Adventures: Daunt Books London Walking down Marylebone High Street is a fun activity, but to find Daunt Books right there in the middle of it all is a delight. This beautiful Edwardian bookshop is full of old-fashioned style. Gorgeous wood interiors, headlight windows and skylights make it beautiful to look at. The light streaming in from […]
In 2013, I was fortunate enough to attend Summer School at Oxford University. I stayed in Exeter College and my room faced Broad Street. Across the road was the world famous Blackwell’s bookshop. Blackwell’s has serving the needs of students, academics and book-lovers since 1879. It’s a great store to wander around and even to sit in the […]
I visited Powell’s City of Books in Portland Oregon last year on my birthday. I had a fabulous couple of hours browsing this wonderful store. When they use the word City in their name, they mean it. The place even has is own parking garage. This store is a book lover’s paradise. It’s known as […]
