Open Door Bookshop, RomeDartmouth College, Baker-Berry, Tower Reading Room, Hanover, NHQuail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NCThe Reading Chairs, Des Moines, IA
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
The Ultimate Reading Nook. Pour the Scotch. Oxford, UK
“He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.”
— Heather Brewer
New York Public Library Riggs Library
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
—Walter Cronkite
Boston Atheneum, one of oldest membership libraries in the United States Iowa Law Library, Des Moines, IowaShakespeare & Company Bookstore, Paris, France Henry VI, Part III: “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” (Act II, Scene I, Line 85) Soviet era Library, potentially abandon in Chernobyl A wall of books! Raleigh, NCDaunt Books, InvernessBnF, Paris, France