Attention, Singapore Readers!
I discovered the most fantastic store last week, instantly one of my favorite spaces in the whole city. It is called Books Actually, and it's a little independent bookstore on the second floor of a shophouse on Telok Ayer Street. It's stocked with so many covetable fiction titles—just talking to the owners, Kenny and Karen, made me immediately want to read George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London (it's their top recommendation, and they're clearly very persuasive, because they were sold out).
But beyond the books, the shop is stocked with lots of cool little touches that make you feel like you're in a special space. There were vintage notebooks and little handmade poetry books and tiny farm animals and colorful old typewriters. Exactly the sort of place that makes you want to stop everything to sit and read, for a change.
Books Actually, 125A Telok Ayer Street, Singapore, (+65) 6221 1170
posted by ms. spinach at 9:34 AM
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Wow, what are the tags hanging in the bottom pic? book titles?
Down and out in Paris & London is a really really good read. Definitely worth hunting down!
i love that shop! hunted it down about two months ago, when they were having a Moleskine exhibition
i'm actually doing a 3d promo piece for a vintage clothing store (deja vu at far east square nearby) to be placed at books actually, but i haven't actually been there. whee!
those little tags are little poetry books, handmade by kenny and karen. each has a single poem (I think they're about a dollar or so), just to give you a taste of some poetry.
oooh. tinyredbird! sounds great. you'll have to let us know when it's up!
Yeah, I LOVE that place. I go there every single weekend to chill with my girl.
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