“If you start to look around, you will start to see. When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope.” Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird, is one of my favourite writing books of all time. They recently released a new edition … [Read more…]
Last summer, we took a trip to Japan and then to Hong Kong, and I’m now at last getting to the backlog of blog posts that I had dreamed of writing when I was there. Of course high up on the list was visiting some stationery shops, but we also tried to pencil in some … [Read more…]
Another new item that’s perfect for starting off a new year—I think I start off every year hoping/planning to read more, or read better. We’re now carrying Page Anchors, a tool that you slide into a book to help it stay open. There are four colours: Gold, Winter Platinum (Silver), Obsidian Black, Rose Gold. I … [Read more…]
Near Chiyoda-Ku is the Jinbocho Book Town, so called because its streets are a maze of used and new bookstores, mostly in Japanese, but a little smattering of English here and there. They seem to be mostly used bookshops, smaller ones with shelves to the ceilings, but there are a number of larger, multi-floor, new … [Read more…]