“…A coffee-house exists to sell coffee, but the coffee-house cannot be reduced to this retail function. …a simple commodity rewrote the experience of metropolitan life. Yet the coffee-house does have a vital relationship with coffee, which remains its governing symbol, lending it connotations of alertness, sobriety and volubility. These convivial and conversational associations grant the coffee-house a unique place in urban life and manners, in sharp contrast to its alcoholic competitors.”

from: The Coffee House, A Cultural History.  by: Markman Ellis. c.2004.        Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London.

I think about how coffee-houses are presented today and how they influence and interact with the way we exist.

I am creating this blog because I hate the fact that bookstores, as we knew them years ago, are becoming obsolete. A lost space in our world, that I feel needs to be refound. So, if you can’t beat em, join em! We’ll just create our bookstore banter here. Meet the characters that visit the The Last Bookstore on Earth , and see where life lives for them.

Coffee?