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Caroline Preston visited the bookshop last month, to discuss her newest book, the utterly unique The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures.
A brief teaser from the publisher:
“For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, and the reader follows [...]
OK folks, this is it! The day I’ve been waiting 3 weeks for! … LW12 is off to school (coughing still from the walking pneumonia, but they tell me that can last 3-4 weeks!), LM10 and LW6 are up and moving in the right direction. LM4 is still asleep, but showed no signs of illness [...]
I had the pleasure of seeing Julia Glass at The Concord Bookshop this past Sunday (click here for a list of upcoming events at the store). For those of you who will be attending Book Group Expo in San Jose this weekend, Julia will be there, and you are in for a real treat! She [...]
(“A day late and a dollar short…”) Today’s question from the Boston Bibliophile: Favorite bookstores. What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping? Is your favorite bookstore (or bookstores) listed as a favorite in LT? Do you attend events at local bookstores? Do [...]
The first bookstore I’ll highlight in this series is the Concord Bookshop, right on Main Street in Concord Center. You have to picture what a Main Street would look like in a Norman Rockwell painting, modernize it just a tad, and you’ve got present-day Concord Center. Truly, drivers stop for pedestrians not only when they’re [...]
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