Difference between revisions of "Uppercase Books & Underground Coffee"
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>S</big>ome bookstores are organized, more gallery than shop. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>S</big>ome are sterile, reserved for only the new and untouched. But not this one. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>T</big>his shop is a labyrinth of stacks and shelves, texts stacked two, even three deep, '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>l</big>eather beside paper beside board. Her favorite kind of store, one that’s easy to get lost in.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>H</big>is hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Elizabeth Tallent, Two Women '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Elizabeth Tallent, Two Women '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>P</big>eople open bookstores because they want their souls back.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine''' <br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine''' <br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>S</big>ome had been held aloft tepid rose-scented baths, and thickened and warped with moisture. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>O</big>thers had child-like scrawls on the acknowledgement page, little fingers looking for a blank space to leave their mark. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>T</big>hen there were the pristine novels, ones that had been read carefully, bookmarks used, '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>a</big>lmost like their owner barely pried the pages open so loathe were they to damage their treasure.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Peter Ackroyd '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Peter Ackroyd '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>W</big>hat is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>S</big>econd-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>a</big>nd have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>B</big>esides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>w</big>ho will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>T</big>housands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>a</big>nd daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>t</big>hey may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions; '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>b</big>ut it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>W</big>ant coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">" | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">"<big>I</big>t's three thirty in the morning." '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">" | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">"<big>O</big>kay. Want coffee?” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ''' <br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ''' <br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>I</big>nside, voices seemed to echo with shadows of other times. Accountants, dreamers, and would-be geniuses '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>s</big>hared tables with the spectres of Pablo Picasso, Isaac Albeniz, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Salvador Dali. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>T</big>here any poor devil could pass for a historical figure for the price of a small coffee.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Samuel Johnson ''' <br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Samuel Johnson ''' <br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>A</big> hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>o</big>nly the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>w</big>ho with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.” '' |
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| class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Michael Benzehabe '''<br> | | class="title" | '''<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> ~ Michael Benzehabe '''<br> | ||
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">“<big>S</big>he had walked from her little bungalow to Coffee & Tea. It was always filled with the '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"> | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>w</big>ell-educated, the complicated, the people who read books with captivating titles. '' |
− | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">A perfect place to ignore and be ignored. She found the anonymity delicious.” '' | + | :'' <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;"><big>A</big> perfect place to ignore and be ignored. She found the anonymity delicious.” '' |
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