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We're celebrating 50 brilliant UK independent bookshops. If your favourite is missing, please add it to the list below...
In Neil Gaiman’s preface to Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, he describes four bookshops from his childhood. One was a travelling school shop, one a local store staffed by a helpful hippy where he’d pick up 25p Tom Disch novels, another was a bus ride away and owned by a Grinch who’d glower at schoolchildren customers, and the last was a now-defunct Soho sci-fi and fantasy treasure trove. Four individual shops run by booksellers with distinct personalities and idiosyncratic tastes. All of which made Gaiman what he is.
That’s the joy of independent bookshops. Their personalities shape those of the people who visit them. They’re not homogenous. Their stock tends to reflect their passions rather than the year's best-performing unit-shifters. And their...
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We're celebrating 50 brilliant UK independent bookshops. If your favourite is missing, please add it to the list below...
In Neil Gaiman’s preface to Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, he describes four bookshops from his childhood. One was a travelling school shop, one a local store staffed by a helpful hippy where he’d pick up 25p Tom Disch novels, another was a bus ride away and owned by a Grinch who’d glower at schoolchildren customers, and the last was a now-defunct Soho sci-fi and fantasy treasure trove. Four individual shops run by booksellers with distinct personalities and idiosyncratic tastes. All of which made Gaiman what he is.
That’s the joy of independent bookshops. Their personalities shape those of the people who visit them. They’re not homogenous. Their stock tends to reflect their passions rather than the year's best-performing unit-shifters. And their...
- 6/10/2016
- Den of Geek
(Cbr) "Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s" first season went out with a bang, metaphorically. The loudest explosion of the season involved the show’s own premise, as it got blown up real good thanks to the twist ending of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." But the super spy agency’s infiltration and eventual dismantling gave the show the shot in the arm it needed as it raced to the finish line. The series ended its run last month stronger than ever and ready to adventure into unknown territory in season two. Even though a handful of guest stars and comic book characters managed to pop up in the first twenty-two episodes, the show kept a tight focus on its core group of human characters. While a lot of eyes are looking to the sky, hoping to see a few super heroes flying overhead in season two, there are still...
- 6/7/2014
- by Brett White, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
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