I think I only visited Lichtman’s a half dozen times when I was living in Toronto. Back then they were actually Canada’s biggest chain of independent book stores. Their first store opened in 1909 in Toronto, and they filed for bankruptcy in 2000 for all the usual reasons (competition from the big box stores and online retailers).
Book: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Alex Good 
While I like looking at all these various bookmarks, I also find it depressing to see all the stores that have gone out of business. It’s just a stark reminder, that is all…
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Everything about book culture is nostalgia now . . .
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Sadly, that is too true.
I can tell you some heart warming stories about my first ereader if that would help bring things into the 21st century….
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Do you still have it?
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No, it’s gone to the Great Recycling Center in the Sky….
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Unlike all your books.
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75% of our hardcovers we sold when we thought we were going to be moving. Just as well, we hadn’t re-read them in years….
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Is it just me or has WP been really dead this weekend?
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Traffic’s a bit slower. But it’s summer. People go away.
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Obviously, their priorities are screwed up. Somebody should do something! I nominate you….
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I’m on it. But first it’s time for a therapeutic nap.
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Ok, you’ve had your 30second nap. Time to get back to work now. Fix everything.
I mean, how hard can that be, right?
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When you say the usual reasons, do you mean that they were selling books from Tarzan’s jungle hut?
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*sigh* That is an urban gazebo. A pleasant place to retire with a book . . .
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It’s nice enough, I wouldn’t mind an urban gazebeo, but overshadowed by Spielberg, naked but for a baseball cap and dirty tennis shoes.
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In the immortal words, or word, of the Scottish poet: Wut?
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Check the last line of your book!
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I meant the bookmark was overshadowed, not the gazebo, for clarification.
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I see now! I have to start paying more attention to those things. Feel it’s necessary to now say that on the next page that sentence continues to give him “cut off white Levi shorts.” Though this isn’t quite right as he isn’t wearing a cap and the shorts are blue denim in the picture I think he’s referring to.
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Ah thank Betsy for that! Though it may be some time until I recover from the mental image that engendered.
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