This week's topic is:
Top 10 Bookstores/ Libraries I've Always Wanted to Visit!
*Sorry its late -_- I got caught up watching The Greatest Showman last night with my husband... And then I fell down the rabbit hole of watching 478451612235489465 different versions of "This is Me." lmao
1. The Strand in NYC: With all the signings and authors that come and go to this place, I'm sure this will be on everyone's list. It looks like a really quaint place that booklovers can go to and find whatever they need for their "fix."
2. Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, IL: I've been to Illinois one time, but I was in Chicago instead. Made me sad that I missed coming to this place. With all the signings and authors that go there, I'm sure to have seen someone. (In fact, the weekend I was there there was a signing. It was for BEA.)
3. New York Public Library: It is MY MISSION to get to New York and see the lions. I share my real name with one of them and I'm a librarian, so this MUST happen sometime. (+10 pts if you know their names and another +10 points if you know which one!) I really want to go while I'm able to have fun, so hopefully this decade I'll be able to make it happen.
4. Powell's Books: My friend went once when she visited there and she said it was HUGE.I've never been to such a huge bookstore, except maybe when I was in Bookpeople in Austin but she said it was bigger than that!
5. Library of Congress: I saw pictures of the inside of the Library of Congress when I was a little girl and I've been obsessed with it ever since. I really want to at least once take a walk through there. Fun Fact: At one point, I was saying I was going to be the librarian at the Library of Congress.... Back when I was in kindergarten.
6. The Last Bookstore: Man look at the crazy cool things they have out there! This place is in California and is Cali's largest used and new book and record store. It's a really cool place and seems like it would be pretty awesome to even just look around at all they have.
7. Beast's Library: Call me weird, but I want nothing more than to walk up and down those stairs and find out his sorting system and find out all the things about this super gorgeous library. It's a really great animation and I've always wished that was my own home.
8. A Home Library: I'm not rich by any means, but this is what I want my home library to look like one day. Right now all my books are still on the floor and I have no shelves, but one day soon they'll be up and ready to go. All that's left is me getting a ladder.............
9. Flourish and Bott's: Um let's be honest, this is more what my house looks like now lmao I haven't been able to put anything away in a long time. The piles on the floor are equalivalent to what I have all around my house. It's pretty sad really lol
10. Mary Anne's Haunted Bookstore: I have no idea who the culprit was because I read this so long ago, but I do remember loving it and loving being scared, so naturally, I really wanted to go there lol
What about you?
What bookstores and libraries would you want to visit?
Did you include any fictional ones like me?!