The idea for this post came to us, by email, as a (friendly) criticism. Seals so many months, and not a word about King Read, the library downtown … This “place a bit anachronistic,” we wrote Ariadne, where “they set up his child in an armchair at the back of the store he leafs through books under the protective eye of the bookseller specializing childhood, and you leave with a book for dad, mom to a book, a book for children, all beautifully packaged. “Where you know you advise “Icelandic saga that makes you forget the RER long journeys”. Where an honest bookseller deter the student to purchase the full ruinous Marx, encouraging them instead to start with capital, published in pocket.
This rare place in a small cobbled street door is open so that no one feels intimidated to enter, that children take to their earlier habits of future bookworms. And it is true that even in the early afternoon of the week, the store is crowded – the weekend, there is elbow to elbow. Eighty square meters (including reserve) whose every inch is used: the books are arranged on eight floors, the ground to high shelves fixed to the wall. Some 25 000 books. A bit of everything.
Well chosen, according to Claude, psychoanalyst, who is ecstatic at the choice made in his specialty. “Sharp”. Here, he continues, “it’s easy, it’s warm. This is not virtual. It’s a real place with real friendly people.”
“This is my library of heart,” added an old lady approaching. “I come for ten years. They seem to have read everything. They help me choose the books for my grandchildren. And it’s not more expensive than FNAC with the loyalty card ! “At the back of the store (not five to six since the entry), Carole Arrighi meets endless requests for “birthday book for a boy of seven years that I do not know.” She extracted a little book off the shelf and began to tell. We want to sit and listen to the story. But a customer interrupts this return to childhood. He wishes to explain that “at Fnac, there are so many things that they want anything. Their blows of heart, you never know if there is not a commercial story behind”. Whereas here, “they make a selection so smart that they give us the impression of it!”