{"id":33900,"date":"2018-08-24T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33900"},"modified":"2018-08-24T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:36:33","slug":"review-of-footnotes-from-the-worlds-great-bookstores-by-bob-eckstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33900","title":{"rendered":"Review of Footnotes from the World’s Great Bookstores, by Bob Eckstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Footnotes* from the World\u2019s Greatest Bookstores<\/p>\n

*True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers<\/em><\/p>\n

by Bob Eckstein
\nForeword by Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n

Clarkson Potter\/Publishers, 2016. 176 pages.<\/p>\n

Any book lover will enjoy this book. It\u2019s quirky \u2013 even has the cover opening in a different direction from the way the pages turn.<\/p>\n

The author is also an artist and has a painting of each featured bookstore \u2013 and they truly are from all over the world. If I had lots of money and time, it would be so much fun to buy a copy of this book and travel the world and try to visit all the bookstores.<\/p>\n

Each bookstore has a brief description, usually including something notable about it. Then on top of the painting of the bookstore, there is a quotation from someone who works there, telling a story about something that happened at that store.<\/p>\n

As an example, here\u2019s what they\u2019ve got for Books of Wonder (minus the painting), a store I ordered Wizard of Oz<\/em> books from for my kids. I\u2019ve never visited it, but I\u2019ve got a warm spot in my heart for it.<\/p>\n

Books of Wonder\u2019s claim to fame is that it was the model for the bookstore in the 1997 film You\u2019ve Got Mail.<\/em> Nora and Delia Ephron, who wrote the film, were both longtime customers and friends of the store \u2013 and Meg Ryan spent a day working at the shop to prepare for her role in the film. In 1985, Books of Wonder established a joint imprint with William Morrow and Company, publishing its own children\u2019s books. Its standing-room-only events have included celebrated authors like J. K. Rowling, Madeleine L\u2019Engle, Maurice Sendak, and Eric Carle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s the quotation written over the \u201csidewalk\u201d in the painting of the bookstore:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy very first book signing was like a dream. Held at the famous Books of Wonder in Manhattan, I shared a table with the great Lane Smith. The first customer was an adorable little girl who, clutching her book very tightly, approached me with an angelic smile. As she gazed up at me with a look of adoration and pure love, her father bent down and said, \u2018No, dear. Lane Smith is the other guy.\u2019 The smile immediately devolved into a quick, hideous grimace as she zipped over to the other end of the table. I can still recall her face as if she was the only person to approach me that day, because she was.\u201d \u2013 Mo Willems<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s lots more where that came from! This book will make you smile and also make you want to go shopping for books.<\/p>\n

bobeckstein.com<\/a>
\nclarksonpotter.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time. The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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