BOOKSHOP BUCKET LIST 📚 virtual tour of must-visit independent bookstores all around the world!

happy ready to book the plane tickets right away hi everyone welcome back to my channel I hope you are well here I am fabulous and ready to slay since we've been stuck inside in lockdown I've been ready to go out more than ever and what I really miss doing is going to bookstores and it got me thinking that I wanted to make a book store bucket list and so these are the book stores that I want to go to so bad one day they are all across the world I just think independent bookstores are something to be celebrated I keep thinking about my video where I went in London and I just want to live that life again like sometimes I want to watch that video just to live vicariously through it and know what it's like to visit a bookstore again today we're gonna talk about ones in different countries that I want to visit like I think I'd be so cool to visit bookstores in other countries even if they aren't stock English books I think it'd be so cool to discover the coach of a place through the bookstores that are there I'm using some footage from other videos on YouTube and I'll make sure to credit where them on screen and also I'll be linked below if you wanna check those videos out the first on my list is Shakespeare Company in Paris now this like I could not make this video and not have this on the list this bookstore is every book lovers dream when I think of a book store this is the kind of place I think of the place feels like it has so much history behind it you know with all the classical authors that I linked to it like Ernest Hemingway the building that it's in now used to be a monastry and stuff like that where there is history behind the place I I just love from the videos I've seen it looks like it has so many nooks and crannies it looks like it has a lot of old editions alongside some newer editions they actually have young writers writers that haven't been published yet they were trying to write their first book come and live in house above the bookstore and then they sell books during a day and then they try and write their books while they live there as well which i think is a really great way of supporting up-and-coming talent and making sure that you are nurturing young writers in the community I think it's such a cool part of it they carry a lot of beautiful copies books and whenever you vibe there you get a special stamp which I feel like it's part of the appeal like getting that stem I want to buy a book so oh my god I feel like they putting mark books up so high just for the stand like you're paying probably like five pound for the stamp and yeah this books or to me it's like the ideal bookstore that's exactly what you imagine when you think of a bookstore and yeah it's just a dream for me need to be able to go there the next one on my list is a little bit of a cheap but this is like the first thing that came into my mind when I thought of this video and it is the straw of library in Prague so this isn't a book store but this is a place I want to visit so bad I first saw a picture of this on Lucy Richardson's Instagram she also has a booktube channel which i will link below i saw the picture of this library and I fell in love I literally turned to tell them straight away I was like Tom have you ever thought about going to ledee in Prague just like a good is one library like it happy ready to book the plane tickets right away this is a dream personal library I mean that's never gonna happen this is a hundred hundreds and hundreds of years old but when I envisage my dream personal library it looks like this I wish I wish again in this case it's the history of the place that draws me in to where a lot of the books housed here are from the 1500s the 1800s so a lot of first editions and I just think it's architectural is so so beautiful it's one of the most beautiful libraries I've ever seen and places like this to me just seemed like a real celebration of books which I love I love when books are really appreciated and to me a place like this is really showing that appreciation for books next is the Ella telegram splendid in Bruno's Aires Brenna's Aires is called the bookstore capital of the world as more bookstores per 100,000 people than anywhere else in the world I think it's something like about 30 per a hundred thousand people so that is a crazy crazy number and this bookstore actually used to be a theatre and they've kept all of the original features and it's just gorgeous it was then turned into a cinema after and then it became the bookstore that it is now I think I'd love to go to Paris Aires just is it all of the different bookstores and just get lost in them every day I guess has been voted the most beautiful bookstore in the world and sis like I can see why I love pixels that have a completely different vibe really repurposed the old into the new I also love bookstores I'm getting on this list but like in old churches or stuff like that I just think it adds a complete her vibe to the books and the bookstore and I think it's just cool to go and visit places like that next is two-tire books in Tokyo Japan I'm talking particularly about the one in the Ginza six shopping mall Japan has always been a dream holiday for me like I have to go to Japan in my lifetime pretty soon but like it's the kind of holiday I want to do really well you know I mean like when you go to Spain or Italy you can kind of you know you can do it not on the cheap but like affordably but Japan I want to go all out this bookstore is kind of actually an art installation when I saw it it's completely different to the other ones I've had on this list which are kind of a bit old I've got that antique feel this is completely modern and it's an art installation so it has exhibition part of it that shows art it has an art gallery and exhibition space it's floor-to-ceiling windows it seems so bright and I would love to go there and buy some manga I really want to get more into graphic novels and manga kind of thing and I would love to go and get some of that there I think it's really cool to visit book source with the different kind of vibes you know like I love an antique feeling like the floor is kind of up and down and lighting is kind of weird and as those of like nooks and crannies and dodgy shelves but then I also love visiting a place like this where it's got a really bright new modern feeling as well and the last one on my list is books are magic in New York I'm sure we have all seen the Instagram Ural it's a girl hotspot that everyone takes their photos in front of yes I want my photo in front of that but so far it seems so welcoming and friendly and warm it also seems really community orientated which is so important with book sort of independent bookstores your customer you need them to return so you need to build a relationship with them and you need to serve the local community and this place this bookstore seems so orientated towards the community they've also got a great kid section where there's loads of places for the kids to play as well which i think is so so important in bookstores because you need to encourage kids reading you need to make it seem fun like it's something that they can really enjoy like it's something for them um I loved going to the library as a kid because there's loads of kind of interactive stuff at the library more chain bookstores won't really have that option for young kids whereas independent bookstores it's really the place that reading comes alive the kids it's also a very aesthetic bookstore and I felt they just kind of have books I like you know what I mean you know sir independent bookstores weren't kind of comic books you like and some will I feel like this bookstore is very in the know about curating a collection of books that people like me want to read and yeah oh my god I would kill to go to fix magic whenever I watched like a New York booktuber and they go there I'm so jealous also okay don't judge me this isn't part of this list is done but I would kill to go back to Barnes and Noble girl back because what you're talking is nice big girl there's something different about that place down more to say I do love a water stands but the big thing for me is this is gonna sound so stupid I love how in Barnes & Noble you have like the carts of books and rows of books right but a water science it's often in the walls and I like being able to walk through the Rose like the aisles of books more than I like the books being on the walls that make sense okay I've had it I have it yeah I wanna go to a half-price Knicks I want to go to Half Price Books never seen Riley Riley go some all the time I wanna go to a half price but this sounds so stupid because people we have half price that could pretty like it's just half price sex but in my head I'm like that is the best place I just want to be that so there we have it that is all the book shops on my book shop bucket list make sure you let me know down below any of yours I'd love to know more book shops around the world that I could one day visit and felt on my bucket list I hope you enjoyed this video make sure you subscribe and ring the bell if you did and I will see you very very soon in another one bye [Music] you