Carmen Books in Granada....where you can while away the hours
Out of curiosity I pushed the door of a very tiny bookshop in calle Matias in Granada and found myself quite at home. Not that my home is filled with books and marvelous ancient editions which have this lovely specific smell of old paper. I wish though...What I mean is, once I entered, I just had to stay for a while, put my bag on the floor, take out my reading glasses and pick one book after the other. I was a bit afraid the owner of the shop would mind my leafing through them. So I quickly set my mind on a nice edition of Sense and Sensibility. When I turned to the owner who was quietly seated in front of his computer, I could see that he was so absorbed in his task that actually he wouldn't have minded if I had picked all the books on the shelves. He spoke to me in Spanish as expected but I could spot the English accent and in the end, he reckoned, well yes I'm an English Granadino. I found the phrase quite cute. And to my own shame, when I asked him, oh and is this a new shop, he smiled and answered, well it's been 10 years now....You see, silly me thought I knew nearly all the nice little shops in Granada...We chatted a bit until a customer entered. Being blogwise camera armed I had to take a picture of John, the very cool shop owner of Carmen's books (on the right) and of his customer whose hat I quite liked.
Don't you like a bit of order and disorder in a bookshop? Now that I think of it, Carmen's books reminded me a bit of Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. When I was an English student, I loved spending afternoons there. Yes, that's it. I found this same feeling of tranquility and the love of books.
Work wise, I'm as ever in a romantic mood. If you're curious to see what I'm doing right now, go here !Carmen Books
Libreria de Antiguo y Ocasión
c/ San Matias 10 - Granada
tel 958 22 73 42
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I live in extremadura, near Cáceres...have you ever been here? If you haven´t, I strongly advise the visit. Cáceres is a beautiful small city and extremadura has such beautiful places to visit....
Saludos!
I don't think I could ever leave this bookstore! It is gorgeous - so perfectly unorganized and filled with charm!
What a lovely discovery.
Bises,
Melissa
From the blizzard in Bethesda I wanted to let you know how much I liked the tilting books. Looks like my book & CD filled apartment.
Best to the Best,
David
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I too could spend hours there! I just love books, bookstores, and can lose myself completely in them. I really love that my eldest son is exactly like me, I have to pry him out of the pages of a book to eat, sleep, anything!
In particular OLD bookstores are the best...how nice that you made this discovery!
Nathalie
Thanks for stopping by...crazy car, no? I love it!
Catherine
Theresa
Here at our house we are little bibliophiles ourselves and we have books in every room. Some on shelves, some on tables, some on the floor, stacked waiting for a new home to be found.
Thank you for sharing your find with all of us!! :)
Tracy
Don't you just love the smell of the books?
Should I say I am Asian Granadino? :-)
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