Showing posts with label Les Librairies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Les Librairies. Show all posts

22 August 2009

Les Librairies of My Life: Les Mots à la bouche



Les Mots à la bouche is my favourite bookstore in the Whole. Wide. World. It is on my favourite street corner in Paris: rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and rue Vieille du Temple, in Le Marais, 4:ème arr.

Les Mots is packed with books, LBGT-themed and others, and they always seem to carry the top 5 books I've been looking for lately; classics as well as new stuff; everything neatly organized. They have a great wall of magazines, too. And a basement.

At the moment all I want is for that wonderfully nice staff to start selling tote bags with their logo, in the appropriate blue colour. It would be perfect in my collection, and I would carry it everywhere with me, showing it off.

By the way, on that same extraordinary corner is:

Amorino (the best ice cream in Europe),
Saveurs de pains (a boulangerie that does fantastic baguettes with gruyère & ham and a mean café crème)
L'étoile manquante (a great hangout café/bar with an otherworldly salad of fresh fruits and cheeses with mustard dressing - Salade d'Ètoile).

(All pics old and googled)



28 October 2007

The Greatest Tee in the World

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Oh my!

Last nite J went through his wardrobe for the first time ever and found a black Strand tee with a red logo that he gave me for present! For the ones who don't know, Strand is like the big fat emperess of bookstores, situated on 828 Broadway (at 12th street) in NYC. Carrying both new and used, they totally rock. This is the place where I always go to brush up my great collection of ntozake shange books whenever I'm in town. It's almost like I long more to go to Strand than I do NYC.