Our annual list is so much fun to make – I hope you enjoy purchasing from it as much as we enjoy showing you all these great ideas and projects!
The Great Gatsby T-Shirt
Everything at Litographs …
Authors love to travel to book locations, too. See where they travel and the places that inspire them.
Take a road trip to a book festival or event!
See the places, homes, castles, train stations and settings in your favorite fiction books.
Visit the places found in your favorite chapter books, young adult lit and picture books.
See the places authors write about in their biographies, history books and memoirs.
Jim at Treasure House Books and Gifts in Old Town, Albuquerque
A bookstore can be old, dirty and or full of rats and people who love books will still go inside. Books have a power to draw people in the doors to thumb through rough edged pages, entice sniffs of ink and enchant us to take them home to our collections.
Once in a while, a bookstore’s charm isn’t in the pages it holds, but rather in the people who run it. Treasure House Books and Gifts in Old Town, Albuquerque, has a treasure behind the front counter. He’ll only give his name as Jim, but the 86-year-old owner and his son, John, have been in the book business for a long time. (And just for the record, the store is clean and well-cared for, unlike the metaphor above.)
“Have a question?” he asked. “I’ve read every book in this store. I can answer anything,” he said with a smile. He’s been selling books on New Mexico, the Southwest, native America, the Old West and Hispanic culture for 40 years in Old Town.
Jim claims he doesn’t have a story; he’s there to tell other people’s stories. He points to a recent photo on the wall of himself with a friend who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. “That’s Hiroshi Mayamura,” he said. “We call him Hershey. He was a prisoner of war for 28 months.”
Jim was in the military, too, but he easily changes the subject to a story Hershey told at a recent meeting about his wife of 67 years. “He said the main thing is to celebrate your anniversary every year. Go to the highest price place in town; order the highest price thing on the menu. He goes Thursday. She goes Friday.”
The narrow store holds book signings and loves visitors to Albuquerque’s Old Town area. Jim says he’ll stay there working until he can’t.
“I’ve met every goal I ever had but one,” he said. “My goal was to jump out of an airplane. I picked 92 as an age. In 2004 I got a magazine from National Geographic and I saw a guy who was 101 years old doing it. I want to go to 102. Just 102.”
Treasure House Books and Gifts is at 2012 South Plaza NW in Albuquerque.
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll be …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll be …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
Road Trips for Readers asks one question to authors who are attending the South Dakota Festival of Books each year. This year, we asked, “What is your favorite road trip you ever took?” We’ll …
It’s time for our annual list of holiday gift ideas for the readers in your life! Enjoy!
Author Dolls
This Etsy shop offers over 180 different author dolls! They’re darling and affordable. Get James Joyce, Gene …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
I’m a creature of habit, so my favorite place to write is at my own desk …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
Where do you like to write, Michael Dahlie?
My favorite place to write is any dark basement.
SDBookFestival.com …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
My favorite place to write is in the rarified world of an art colony. It is …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
I write in my neighborhood coffee shop, in Denver. I like the hubbub, the noise, etc. …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
Where do you like to write?
My favorite place is the dark corner of a room away …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
Where do you like to write?
Any place where I’m in the company of congenial people with …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
Where do you like to write?
My favorite place to write is in my tiny study at …
Road Trips for Readers asked some of the writers attending the 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books where they like to write.
My favorite place to write? Two favorites! I love to write from the yellow Adirondack chair …
BUFFALO, W.Y. — A&E’s No. 1 original hit drama series “Longmire” has launched into its second season with more than 4.3 million viewers, the series is one of A&E’s most successful shows to debut. …
Ms. Horan , do you write on location or on your desk at home?
Yes, I definitely write when I visit the location of a scene from the book I’m working on. In the case …
Where do you write, Wendy?In my office at home, though sometimes I like to take my laptop out to my back porch. I have also written in hotel rooms and I plan on spending …
Guest Post by Mark Steve
If you want to spend some moments in the scenario of 500 years ago, then there can be no better medium than a renaissance festival. The “Age of Chivalry Renaissance …
By Jennifer Noble
Guest Post
I went on a recent exploration of the Sioux City Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa, and had a blast! I knew there was a Da Vinci exhibit on the way, …
Intended to educate and motivate the five book Fish on Kids book series gets kids inspired to put down the smart phone and pick up the fishing rod.
With a career in the American Sportsfishing …
Everyone loves a book where the setting is as important as the characters. The Help wouldn’t have been the same if it weren’t in Jackson, Mississippi. The Firm just had to be in Memphis …
Have a friend who is always glued to the latest romance novels? Here’s a list of gift ideas for her for Valentine’s Day!
Personalized Romances – choose from a large list of romantic books, and …
I’m a location predator, and I find out I’m on the prowl even when I don’t want to be on the prowl or don’t even know it — always observing and banking locations that may …
Stephen King fan? So are the folks at the Bangor, Maine, Convention and Vistors Bureau. They’ve created a tour based on the wildly popular King book, Tommyknockers. This tour is based on similarities between the …
By Jennifer Bertram
Maybe it was the relatively limited selection in my small hometown’s public library, my voracious reading appetite, or a connection I felt to the heroine, but I was arguably the biggest fan of …
Does your significant other have every book ever written on Abraham Lincoln? Do you have a painting of George Washington in your dining room? Is following the footsteps of Lewis and Clark at the top of …
