NY bookstores pass the smell test
In the travel section of today’s Globe and Mail, Montreal writer David McGimpsey walks us through a day of book shopping in New York City. McGimpsey visits all sorts of bookstores — from small indies to university bookshops, from kids’ stores to the big chains, he does not discriminate.
Well, except on one point: “Big or small, I do insist that all bookstores worth visiting must smell good. The potential for a moldy, newsprinty smell is so strong in a bookstore, you really have to appreciate those toasty places that somehow smell like a bakery at Christmastime.”
What? Not everyone likes the smell of musty old paperbacks?
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