IMHO There are 3 types of bookstores: 1. Big chain stories, like Crossword, landmark etc. Where you have best-seller lists, best fiction, best non-fiction so on. They're predictable places. I once visited Landmark in Chennai and bought some great stuff there. I remember finding a Matt Rees book there I hadn't found anywhere else.
2. Stores with haphazardly put together books. You need to search these stores for gems, but you'll definitely find them - like Blossom in B'lore, Midlands in Delhi, nagashri in B'lore, etc. 3. Stores with carefully curated books. These, I find to be the best. Fact & Fiction was one such. The Bookshop in Delhi too, and maybe Lotus in Bombay at one point. Unfortunately these tend to be passion-driven, independent bookstores which don't make money. I miss them the most. Strand bookstore in NY is probably the last such big store anywhere in the world. Alas. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:27 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > She was doing a going out of business sort of sale a while back – the > Connemara was damaged by the floods and they used that as an excuse to boot > her. > > Pity – excellent if rather idiosyncratic collection crammed into a > surprisingly small place. And she knew what she was talking about. > > On 04/08/16, 5:18 PM, "silklist on behalf of Udhay Shankar N" > <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > > There used to be this store inside (I think) The Connemara hotel in > Madras. > Reminded me of the late lamented Premier Bookstore in Bangalore. Any > idea > if it is still around? > > Udhay > > > > >
