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A Review of Boulinier

A Review of Boulinier

James Duncan
Bookshop Review

18 Bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France

In my recent trips to Paris, I’ve stayed in my favorite neighborhood in the 6th Arrondissement, the stretch along the south bank of the Seine between Saint-Michel and Norte Dame, where you’ll find such classic bookstores as Shakespeare and Co. and Abbey Bookshop. Both incredible, but both cater a bit more toward English-speaking visitors and ex-pats than French locals. So on my most recent visit I wanted to explore a shop for locals. And Boulinier is exactly that. Sure, this used bookshop has a nominal selection in English, but unless you read French, Boulinier might be a quick visit for you. Although there’s plenty of reasons to pop in for a look regardless.

A Review of Green Hand Bookshop

A Review of Green Hand Bookshop

James Duncan
Bookshop Review

661 Congress Street, Portland, ME

Green Hand is the kind of throwback second-hand bookshop you yearn to find, where new books sit side-by-side with old-school pulp paperbacks in every row, aisle, stack, and nook in a long tangle of a one-room shop. It’s the kind of place where you should ideally set aside more than an hour to explore, a whole afternoon if you’re ambitious. I mean, as the good doctor Hunter S Thompson said, “Anything worth doing is worth doing right,” right? Well, I did it wrong and only gave the shop a quick half hour, but it was enough to fall in love.