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SOme of them are just so nurturing!
  

    

My fave bookstore is Three Lives Books on Tenth Street in Manhattan.  I go
in there and it's better than taking heroin, such a fine calm happiness
comes over me.  It's a small store, but GAWD do those chicks know what
they're doing!  Plus, there is usually Theo the dog there.
  

    

My favorite is Amaz...oh, wait. My favorite is Dutton's Brentwood Books,
but I'm biased because I used to work there for a year. They're probably
the best indie bookstore in the Greater Los Angeles area.
  

    
I did a reading there once.  What a great store!
  

    

I hate it.  I find it annoying!
  

    

That is a shame, but I still feel validated in my love of it.
  

    

It's just a little too twee for me, with all the adorable cards and
children's items.
  

    
But the presence of Scott Wannberg makes it all worthwhile!
  

    

Every time I visit LA, it's good to go to Dutton's on a Saturday and
hear Scott say, "Ronnnn HO-gan" as I walk in the door. And he knows
everybody. And you can spend your whole time there with him and not
see a single twee card or children's book.
  

    
I contend Scott should be listed in the tourist guides for folks visiting
LA. He should be given landmark status.
  

    
Bay Book & Tobacoo in Half Moon Bay was always great.  I haven't been
there in several years so I can't vouch for it currently, but it was
fabulous when I was a kid.
  

    


I love A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books when Linda Dyer is doing the
event.  I love Book Passage (in Corte Madera) because they do so much for
authors and are fighting the good fight for the indies and mostly because
they carry all my CDs and not only that are the only consignment account
I've ever had that pays for product without being hounded.  I love Staceys
in downtown SF because they have an incredible nonfiction section and
because they tell me secret places to park.  I love Booksmith on Haight
Street because they used to be my neighborhood bookstore and I love the
owners (who have been roadies for the Remainders) and they make baseball
trading cards for the authors who read there.  And I love Cover to Cover for
the Childrens section.  Impossible to pick a favorite, but don't get me
started on the bookstores I DON'T like, and why!

Oh - I also like cody's a lot.
  

    

Feel free to start on the bookstores you don't like!
  

    
Well, I don't have any bookstores I need to knock at the moment.

I do want to offer praise for Copperfield's, a small bookstore chain
in Sonoma County, California. The company has five or six shops spread
across the county, it's still a small business.

I like that the individual shops have "Local Author" sections where
they carry the books written by people living in the community. They
even carry self-published works, such as a quarterly magazine
self-published for the past five years by a trio of girls now just in
their mid-teens. 
  

    

Oh, I love those Copperfield's people.  One of the reasons I'm thinking of
moving to Petaluma.
  

    
I used to know a Copperfield's employee.  Great guy!  He moved to LaLa Land, alas.
  

    


A tragic story.  For all we know, now he's at Chippendales.
  

    
Books for Cooks, in Notting Hill.
  

    

that's a great store with lovley lunch too!
  

    
Favorite LA bookstores: almost all the indies.  Dutton's in Brentwood,
Bodhi Tree (on Melrose), Book Soup (on Sunset), Sisterhood (in
Westwood), and the Studio City location of Samuel French.
  

    
what is the name of that book store on clement... around 5th I think.
I used to love to go there and stamer around.  I'm still looking in chicago.
 There are quite a few indie's here.
  

    
Bookplate?  Is it still there?
  

    

Green Apple. It is, last time I checked, still there.
  

    
green apple!  oh yes!  any ideas on places in chicago?  I'd love a hand
  

    
Heintzelman's Bookstore in Los Altos is wonderful. Conrad Heintzelman
used to work in publishing in Manhatttan and gives great gossip. Susan,
his wife, was a librarian at Columbia and makes offbeat, thoughtful
book recs.
  

    

Myopic Books - a wonderful used book store in Providence, RI.

Excellent sellection. You never find what you want but you always end up
leaving with something better.