#strand bookstore

[the-forest-library]

Picked this up at a recent library sale and was pleased to find several bookstores I’ve been to

[crowleysgirl56]

Crowleysgirl adventures in New York with some more Good Omens references!

Today after Stonewall (see my post about it here), I made my way to Strand bookstore and holy crap this place is AMAZING! Four levels of all the books you can get your hands on. But the upstairs level in the old and rare section I of course immediately thought of Aziraphale and how at home he would be here! I thought the same in the New York public library yesterday but wasn’t allowed to take photos in the research sections. And of course I had to take a picture of the occult section. Bit spooky. Big spooky fan me.

Has anyone here been to the Strand? What did you think of it and what did you get?

[facomiranda]

NYC 2024 postcards #005

[shegottosayit]

Hit my subway station with five pages to go in my book. (An Agatha Christie. It was the page before finding out who did the murder.) I thought there were more pages but it’s junk in the back. So I went to the bookstore before going home. And at the bookstore I found this perfect and amazing tote bag and I’ve been needing a new one but it’s been tough because I have speciations.

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Literary NYC: The Strand Bookstore, September 2023 (Part 1)

[sharpmemorial]

[introspect-la]

BOTTEGA VENETA STRAND BOOKSTORE BAG (2022)

[lifewithcreo]

A bargain for insight.

[titles-for-tangents]

As it turns out, the employees at Strand Books are getting paid the NYC minimum wage of about $16/hr.

You know - poverty wages. In Manhattan.

Here’s the full article published 12/8/24:

Dozens of employees at one of Manhattan’s busiest and most iconic bookstores walked off the job on Saturday after contract negotiations failed to produce an agreement between their union and management.

Workers began picketing outside Strand Bookstore around 10 a.m. in what’s believed to be the first employee strike in nearly three decades at the popular bookshop.

UAW Local 2179, which represents the bookstore workers, says they are demanding a fair contract and a living wage. Many of the workers out on the picket line said that even though the holiday season is one of the store’s busiest times, many of its employees are struggling to live in New York on what they make.

“We’re just asking for a little bit more, that 50 cents more a year,” said Joel Gross, who works at the store. “If we can get that we can go back to work.’

In the meantime, striking workers are also calling on customers to honor the picket line and abstain from buying from the store.

Bookstore executives released a statement saying in part, “We respect and value our staff, and we have made sizable economic offers during this contract negotiation accordingly. The union has not been willing to accept those increases so far.”

Gothamist reports the union is calling on a $2 increase to employee base pay, which currently starts at $16 an hour, the minimum wage for New York City. The union also wants that rate to increase by $1.50 in the second and third years, but management is reportedly countering at 50 cents for each.

“Everybody wants to go back to work. We love sharing books with people, we love serving the readers of the city,” Gross added.

[greenwallflower]

[alrightbuckaroo]

Mood Ring: the moodboard tag game

The rules: Either: choose one of your published fics (or a WIP if you'd prefer), create a moodboard for it and share it along with a snippet. Or: Create a moodboard for your fave episode of the show, fave character, or a fic someone else has written that you love, and share it with some sentences about why it's a fave! (And tag people!).

29 Going on 30

During a trip to New York City to celebrate TK turning 30, TK and Carlos stumble upon a list of things TK always wanted to do before he turned 30, all of them being references to romantic comedies he loved so much growing up.

While TK is fine with leaving the past in the past, Carlos thinks there's no better time than the present. He thinks that TK deserves to feel the same type of love he loved watching on the silver screen, so he devotes the rest of their trip to just that.

Told through a tale filled with everlasting love, a never-ending trek across New York City and the occasional painful reminder of the past, Carlos learns a little more about the city TK once called home and TK learns a little more about himself.

Here's a snippet 💕

“TK,” Carlos turns to TK, the skyline forgotten and TK follows his motions. “In my vows, I said that you are the dream I would not allow myself to have, and every time I wake up next to you, I feel like I’m still dreaming. Every time I wake up next to you, I think this feels too good to be true.” TK wonders where this could be going, if they’re both afraid of the same thing and if so, what could that mean. “But,” Carlos says. “That’s what I love about it. Every day with you it’s like I get to experience falling in love for the first time all over again. I get to feel the euphoric rush of realizing I’ve found the one and I get to feel that again and again and again.” “I think that part of living life is finding new ways to left love in,” Carlos continues. “Learning that love can be an afternoon serenade, a hideous sweater that you still found a way to look good in or the realization that the love that feels too good to be true is the love that you’ve been deserving of all along.” TK is quiet for a beat; a medley of mixed emotions overtaking him. Love that feels too good to be true is the love that you’ve been deserving of all along. Maybe Carlos is right, maybe he needs to let himself finally feel comfortable with the idea that this type of love isn’t meant to crumble. He won’t have to dig through the remains of what’s left to restore himself. This love has a foundation that’s meant to last. Quietly, he asks, “You still think I’m a dream?” “So much I almost can’t believe my eyes,” Carlos replies with a smile.

Is now a good time to say that I've started working on an unofficial sequel titled 30 Going on Forever where they go back for Carlos' birthday, which is during Pride, and they do all the queer things teenage Carlos never thought he'd get to do (let alone with the love of his life)? I'm excited 💕

Thanks for the tags @heartstringsduet and @carlos-in-glasses for thinking up this fun game! Also thanks to this user for the divider!

[maddiesbookshelves]

Every bookshop I went to in New York!

📍The Strand

📍Books Are Magic (both locations)

📍The Ripped Bodice

📍The Drama Book Shop

📍powerHouse books

📍Albertine

I only realised when I had already left NYC that there are several Shakespeare & co there, so I went to none of them...

In Boston I did go to Trident and Newbury Comics, but either it was raining or I was in a hurry, so I didn't take any pictures. I didn't have time to go to Papercuts, like someone suggested when I asked though, which is a shame

But here's a bonus bookstore I went to in Wellesley, where I was staying:

[thecrowcrew2020]

One thing about me is that I’ll always support the actors from my favorite shows in all their projects

[kabluey9650]

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Literary NYC: The Strand Bookstore, September 2023 (Part 2)

[forthepleasureofmylife]

Strand Books N.Y.C.

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel