The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog. 

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This Week’s Question

Imagine you owned a bookstore. What would it look like?

This is a fun prompt! If I owned a bookstore I would want it to feel cozy. When I say that I think part hobbit-core and part academic-core. There would be warm-toned rugs over wood floors and warm-toned light sconces on the wall. The bookshelves would be medium or medium-dark wood and the walls would be a medium green.

I wouldn’t want to focus on only one genre, so my bookstore would have all genres. The kids section would have a couple of chairs if parents wanted to read to their kids there. I’d also have to have a section of the store devoted to fun hobbies like gardening, watercolor painting, embroidery, puzzles, and model building. Ideally, it’d be nice to source the non-book items from local or ethical vendors. I’d also probably collaborate with a local coffee shop and sell bags of their coffee in the store, and do something similar for tea or chocolate. Having tea while reading is a very cozy thing to do.

I’m definitely drawing a lot of inspiration from one of my local indie bookstores, which has a good eye for pairing cute book-adjacent items amidst the actual book sections.