tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post116949044651491023..comments2023-10-05T06:28:29.938-07:00Comments on Bookseller Chick: The Secret Lives of BooksBookseller Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740546395821645741noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-74736410725186432902007-06-18T11:57:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:57:00.000-07:00What a beautiful post! I just discovered your site...What a beautiful post! I just discovered your site and I am pleased.<BR/><BR/>As a writer and reader, I love all kinds of books (new and old.) However, I prefer real antique books. I really love to imagine the journey of the book before it reached my hands. <BR/><BR/>I have books from 1800's...just extra cool stuff.<BR/><BR/>fania <BR/>www.faniasimon.comFania Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12926787771215863097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1170234618382640272007-01-31T01:10:00.000-08:002007-01-31T01:10:00.000-08:00I've just come across your site, and I love it! I ...I've just come across your site, and I love it! I am back from a vacation, and I left the book I read on the plane, on the motor boat on the way to diving sights, on the beach and everywhere else, in Angkoriana hotel in Cambodia's Siem Reap. It was David Loodge "Thinks...". I finished reading it in Thailand, but I am sooo bad in books-parting, so the book was in my backpack. I have endless shelves at home, and it's so difficult, because my little family moves around the globe almost every year. And then I am stacking my books into boxes with clothes, and kitchen supplies, and bathroom supplies, just to make it seem that I do not have too many of them, when we come to packing my shelves!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I left that book in the hotel, but I could not part with another book, I bought on the same trip in a used bookstore in Malaysia's Georgetown, Penang. It is 'Bestseller' by Olivia Goldsmith, and I loved the book, there are thousand of quotations, and the whole publishing-surviving precess is written about greatly.<BR/><BR/>And I do love buying new books... and giving them the first turn of their story...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1170085594300071732007-01-29T07:46:00.000-08:002007-01-29T07:46:00.000-08:00I just found your site today, and I must admit, I ...I just found your site today, and I must admit, I really love the content you have written! Thanks for the blog!<BR/><BR/>And, I have left some books behind in LA when I flew out for vacation. I took a book on Linux with me, read it in flight, and when packing for the return flight I simply decided I didn't want, or have room for, a rather hefty 5 pound book. So, it stayed behind. Having picked it up for only a few bucks at a bargain-bookstore helped a lot with that decision :)Mike Eberharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16410014970702142362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169876856441358792007-01-26T21:47:00.000-08:002007-01-26T21:47:00.000-08:00When I lived in Europe I would stalk the train sta...When I lived in Europe I would stalk the train station for English books that tourists left behind. The library was all French and I couldn't afford my book habit so I would take anything left behind. I read tons of things I would otherwise never have picked up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169827731717831862007-01-26T08:08:00.000-08:002007-01-26T08:08:00.000-08:00It was sometime last year that I finally realized ...It was sometime last year that I finally realized I was trying to insulate myself from my poverty-ridden child with a wall of shoes and books. Okay, more like a mountain.<BR/><BR/>I also relaized it wasn't going to work because I couldn't eat shoes or books, and because they have intrinsic value to nobody much but me.<BR/><BR/>That realization has made it easier to let go of both of them so they can go forth to the thrift store to make somebody else happy.<BR/><BR/>All that being said, we have a great bar with a patio here that has a book exchange shelf. I try to contribute to it at least once a week, whether I need a drink or not ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169647193581814612007-01-24T05:59:00.000-08:002007-01-24T05:59:00.000-08:00I've left books behind in Hawaii and Spain. Both t...I've left books behind in Hawaii and Spain. Both times, I was highly interested to see what others had left, what authors did or didn't make the cut.<BR/><BR/>Great post!Kristen Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07984459504977637298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169589528945558442007-01-23T13:58:00.000-08:002007-01-23T13:58:00.000-08:00Shoes & books scattered around your apartment, you...Shoes & books scattered around your apartment, you're the true modern day woman.Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888125796129754219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169587233739212902007-01-23T13:20:00.000-08:002007-01-23T13:20:00.000-08:00Very evocative post. Your description of the tour...Very evocative post. Your description of the tourists' library at the hotel in Mexico reminded me of a similar event. I was in Paris in 95 or 96 with my brother and best friend. A girl who'd been staying next door came to our room before checking out and asked if anyone wanted her copy of Styron's Set This House on Fire. Need I say that I gladly grabbed it? And loved it, in no small part because if where I'd gotten it?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reminding me of that.<BR/><BR/>Steve QuinnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169497013411269982007-01-22T12:16:00.000-08:002007-01-22T12:16:00.000-08:00You make me want to go to that hotel and leave a b...You make me want to go to that hotel and leave a book too. :-) This is the reason I prefer buying second hand books. I love holding the books in my hands, turning over the pages, wondering about the kind of 'life' it has had, who its previous owners were and why did they decide to give it up? I've given away or sold many of my own books too over the years and sometimes I like to sit back and make up stories about where they go, all the interesting people they meet and all the exciting places they go to that I might never get to see. It's a bit like having a life beyond your own.eihposhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00313211805933994883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1169491072378457452007-01-22T10:37:00.000-08:002007-01-22T10:37:00.000-08:00What a great post! I don't often leave books in ra...What a great post! I don't often leave books in random places, but I refer folks to BookCrossing all of the time (and I sometimes tell them about the coins in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli). I love finding books in libraries and booksales with inscriptions, checkout cards, and dates. Before you start reading the story, you can make up a story about those previous readers.Little Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.com