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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)

It was the hour of the pearl – the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself

book recommendations, Cannery Row, Fiction, literature, Monterey, ocean, Steinbeck, travel

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)

“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till morning”

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, books, Fiction, Heidi, literature, Switzerland, travel

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)

You’ve got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet

Audrey Hepburn, book recommendations, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote, Fiction, Holly Golightly, literature, New York City

Bookstore Bums II: City Lights Bookstore

Open Door/Open Mind/Open Books/Open Heart

books, bookstore bums, Bookstores, Jack Kerouac, literature, North Beach, San Francisco

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (1933)

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry”

book recommendations, Down and Out in Paris and London, Evicted, literature, Non-Fiction, poverty

Bookstore Bums I: Green Apple in San Francisco

How I feel about bookstores is the way Jordan from The Great Gatsby felt about parties, “he gives large parties….and I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” In that sense, Green Apple Books & Music in San Francisco is a large party.

books, bookstore bums, Bookstores, Green Apple, Inner Richmond, literature, music, San Francisco

The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)

“Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity”

book recommendations, Camus, existentialism, Fiction, literature, pacifism, The Fall

Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac (1960)

“America’s always rememberable in exile”

book recommendations, Jack Kerouac, literature, Lonesome Traveler, Non-Fiction, On the Road, self-reliance, The Stranger, travel

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)

“I shall always need you, because I will always love you; but my need is no greater now than at another time”

book recommendations, Dickens, Fiction, Great Expectations, Jo March, literature, Oliver Twist, The Great Gatsby

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

“I can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy”

Alcott, book recommendations, feminism, Fiction, gender, Jo March, literature, Little Women, psychological androgyny, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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