Comments for BookEnds http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends Lower Fairfield County's online book club Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Without Borders by Rose Raimondo http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2011/07/31/without-borders/#comment-1145 Rose Raimondo Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:27:45 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1135#comment-1145 We can't sit idly by and watch the store on High Ridge Road go off into the sunset without a fight. It was too valuable a place for that. What is Stamford anyway? Does it call itself a city because of UBS and RBS? Barnes and Noble in the mall is very unwieldy, and who wants to go to a mall to browse a book store anyway. I don't and I want this city to step up and do something about recruiting another suitable tenant for the old Borders space. We need to form a committee...or something. Books a Million went right into the former Borders space in South Portland, Me. So Maine can do it and we can't? We can’t sit idly by and watch the store on High Ridge Road go off into the sunset without a fight. It was too valuable a place for that. What is Stamford anyway? Does it call itself a city because of UBS and RBS? Barnes and Noble in the mall is very unwieldy, and who wants to go to a mall to browse a book store anyway. I don’t and I want this city to step up and do something about recruiting another suitable tenant for the old Borders space. We need to form a committee…or something. Books a Million went right into the former Borders space in South Portland, Me. So Maine can do it and we can’t?

]]> Comment on In Florence with no Baedeker: Reading ‘A Room With a View’ by Time Travellers « Libreria La Pared's Blog http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/07/12/in-florence-with-no-baedeker-reading-a-room-with-a-view/#comment-852 Time Travellers « Libreria La Pared's Blog Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:03:07 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=335#comment-852 [...] Pre-WWI city. I think I first really wondered about these guides when I read E.M. Forster’s  Room with a View.   I followed Lucy Honeychurch’s journey through Florence and her need for and then abandonment [...] [...] Pre-WWI city. I think I first really wondered about these guides when I read E.M. Forster’s  Room with a View.   I followed Lucy Honeychurch’s journey through Florence and her need for and then abandonment [...]

]]> Comment on Without Borders by Roy Nirschel http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2011/07/31/without-borders/#comment-723 Roy Nirschel Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:55:51 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1135#comment-723 What a well written piece from someone who shares loves of books. I always wondered whether the model of offering coffee and a chance to sit idly for hours pursuing books and magazines would work. Unfortunately we are now seeing for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Borders. While this generation has more access to information than any in history I hope that its capacity to enjoy the pleasures of touching a page, feeling the print, scribbling in the margins and watching the dog eared pages age and fade (as all things must) isnt lost. What a well written piece from someone who shares loves of books.

I always wondered whether the model of offering coffee and a chance to sit idly for hours pursuing books and magazines would work. Unfortunately we are now seeing for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Borders.

While this generation has more access to information than any in history I hope that its capacity to enjoy the pleasures of touching a page, feeling the print, scribbling in the margins and watching the dog eared pages age and fade (as all things must) isnt lost.

]]> Comment on Wrestling’s “Cocktail of Death” author tours by lisa wilson grant http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/03/19/wrestling%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccocktail-of-death%e2%80%9d-author-tours/#comment-681 lisa wilson grant Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:05:37 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=888#comment-681 ‎"Roton Point" Book signing tomorrow 1-3 at Rainy Faye bookstore (next to the library) at 1042 Broad Street, Bridgeport. Roton Point was an amusement park in Norwalk from 1880's until 1941, and this is an amusement park postcard history book we put together - please come and say "hi"!! ‎”Roton Point” Book signing tomorrow 1-3 at Rainy Faye bookstore (next to the library) at 1042 Broad Street, Bridgeport. Roton Point was an amusement park in Norwalk from 1880′s until 1941, and this is an amusement park postcard history book we put together – please come and say “hi”!!

]]> Comment on Book spotting by lisa wilson grant http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/#comment-680 lisa wilson grant Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:03:57 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1052#comment-680 ‎"Roton Point" Book signing tomorrow 1-3 at Rainy Faye bookstore (next to the library) at 1042 Broad Street, Bridgeport. Roton Point was an amusement park in Norwalk from 1880's until 1941, and this is an amusement park postcard history book we put together - please come and say "hi"!! ‎”Roton Point” Book signing tomorrow 1-3 at Rainy Faye bookstore (next to the library) at 1042 Broad Street, Bridgeport. Roton Point was an amusement park in Norwalk from 1880′s until 1941, and this is an amusement park postcard history book we put together – please come and say “hi”!!

]]> Comment on Once upon a midnight dreary by metal bookends http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/31/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary/#comment-665 metal bookends Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:58:02 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1088#comment-665 Most recently, I’m reminded of a boy–about age 14–who came up to me on my recent book tour. I was in New York City, and he approached me with a well-loved and quite tattered copy of Tantalize. He said it was the first book he’d ever finished. “The first book?” I asked, and he nodded solemnly. “The first book ever,” he emphasized. “All the way through.” Most recently, I’m reminded of a boy–about age 14–who came up to me on my recent book tour. I was in New York City, and he approached me with a well-loved and quite tattered copy of Tantalize. He said it was the first book he’d ever finished. “The first book?” I asked, and he nodded solemnly. “The first book ever,” he emphasized. “All the way through.”

]]> Comment on Book spotting by metal bookends http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/#comment-642 metal bookends Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:21:15 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1052#comment-642 To be organized in things are really important. It is to maintain it's beauty and status. It is good for the book stores owner. To be organized in things are really important. It is to maintain it’s beauty and status. It is good for the book stores owner.

]]> Comment on Checking In by metal bookends http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/06/29/checking-in/#comment-383 metal bookends Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:16:56 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=278#comment-383 I'm excited about your news and I cannot wait for it's launching.Hope that our wait is worth it.Make it as soon as possible.Thanks. I’m excited about your news and I cannot wait for it’s launching.Hope that our wait is worth it.Make it as soon as possible.Thanks.

]]> Comment on Wrestling’s “Cocktail of Death” author tours by Martin Carter http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/03/19/wrestling%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccocktail-of-death%e2%80%9d-author-tours/#comment-374 Martin Carter Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:24:28 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=888#comment-374 I really like this kind of sports.very interesting to watch... I really like this kind of sports.very interesting to watch…

]]> Comment on Book spotting by Olivia Just http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/#comment-361 Olivia Just Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:40:20 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=1052#comment-361 Oh wow, thank you! The display was such a great idea, and I'm so glad the article was inspiration. Oh wow, thank you! The display was such a great idea, and I’m so glad the article was inspiration.

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