The Bookstore Blog
Susan Cheever's Blog
By John Hugo, Mar 7, 09:47 AM
This lovely post was on Susan Cheever’s blog and we just had to pass it on…she is a wonder!
I spend a lot of time at Barnes and Noble, but if I go to heaven and it’s crowded with indepedent bookstores, I won’t be surprised. More than other stores, these places seem designed by a benevolent imagination for our pleasure. At the Andover Bookstore you can sink into an armchair by a crackling fire, or hug the communal teddy bear as you sample a book. Reading there this morning was delicious; Karen had baked a cake in the shape of a castle! Chris kept telling me how much he loved the book. He even complimented me on this blog. (Hi Chris!)
Then in the afternoon I drove down to the Concord Bookshop where a big audience crowded the middle of the store. I’ve spent many happy afternoons wandering around that wonderful store, with and without my kids, and it was exciting to be there in Concord, the heart of the matter, the subject of the book from which I was reading. On the way out of town I stopped for a moment at Orchard House. It was almost dark with just a glow of light in the west and a narrow crescent of silver moon hanging over Walden Woods.
