Someone make this for me.

[leahbobet]

I have finally conceived of a cruise-style vacation that would actually appeal to me:

kafkonia (5:40:49 PM): http://www.bookbarn.co.uk/
kafkonia (5:40:52 PM): *drool*
cristalia (5:41:22 PM): ohhh.
cristalia (5:41:26 PM): There's a day's work there...
kafkonia (5:41:37 PM): Five. Million. Books.
kafkonia (5:41:44 PM): They give you a sheet telling you where the categories are.
kafkonia (5:44:26 PM): It's almost enough to tempt me to Somerset.
kafkonia (5:44:40 PM): But I'm not sure even Krista would approve of flying to England to go to a bookstore.
kafkonia (5:44:48 PM): Although she just bought a half-dozen or so books today, so maybe she would.
cristalia (5:45:04 PM): I think there's nothing wrong with flying places for giant bookstores.
cristalia (5:45:11 PM): We could have a junket or something.
cristalia (5:45:16 PM): "Large Bookstores of the Mediterranean"

You would sit on the boat, eat nachos, and read your books. Until the next bookport.

Tell me that doesn't sound like the best thing ever.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

The only way that could possibly be better is if there were yarn shops next door to the bookstores.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I would endorse that.

Sit on the boat, eat nachos, read your books, knit. *g*

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Nope, nachos'd get the silk all greasy. What you want is M&Ms in a glass.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

You may opt to forgo your nachos. More for me. :D

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm making socks. Those are washable, so nacho grease isn't a problem. Mmm, jalapeños!

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I am so with you! However, there is another way to make it even better: tea. Yes. (I'm with you on the chocolate over nachos--oh dairy, why you do that to my insides?)

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

I think there's nothing wrong with flying places for giant bookstores.
We could have a junket or something.
"Large Bookstores of the Mediterranean"

sign me up!

that sounds like a venue most heavenly. of course, I'm still dreaming about The Strand (http://www.strandbooks.com/). only been there once, and I made the mistake of going in with friends. they had to drag me bodily out. I barely made a dent in it!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

That is going on our port list.

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed! Best Vacation Ever! I would *totally* love to sit and eat nachos and read... Mmmm... :D (And we might need margaritas - reading can dry you out, you know. :D)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And drinking salt water, very dangerous. :D

[desperance.livejournal.com]

We could buy one of those giant ferries and fit it out as a giant floating bookstore? Then we cruise the books from port to port. Which would still allow plenty of nacho-knitting in between the reading and the browsing and the occasional stepping off the boat to explore and so forth...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...this has me wanting not that, but a giant floating Sealandesque library.

With mahogany shelves.

I think I'm going to stick that in a story somewhere.

[auraus.livejournal.com]

My name is Danijela, and I endorse this idea with all my meager funds!

Because a cruise on the Mediterranean + books + TEA = YES PLEASE.

The menu as thus:

Food:
Chocolate, Nachos
Beverages:
Wine, Tea

Honestly. Sunshine + books = win.

[obake.livejournal.com]

Slightly closer is my used bookstore of choice in Portland, OR: Powell's City of Books. It doesn't sound quite as big as Book Barn though.

I would totally go on a cruise of book discovery... sail to exotic lands, meet new people, and read their books.

My drink of choice would be a gin and tonic. Have to keep the malaria away, doncha know.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Medicinal! Not recreational!

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I would so go on that trip. I wouldn't have to bring anyone along, would I? Unless I anticipated having too many books to carry myself . . .

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Nope. And I expect there would have to be something about shipping stuff back... *g*