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Bob Eckstein is New York Times and New Yorker writer and cartoonist. He has also written for The New York Daily News, Atlas Obscura, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Village Village, GQ, Playboy, MAD, The Spectator (UK), and many other places. His one other book The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) is a popular holiday classic. His new book Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores was selected by Wall Street Journal as one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2016 and a New York Times bestseller that is now beloved around the world.
Reviewed by Geree McDermott for Readers' Favorite
If you love reading and visiting book stores, you’ll love Bob Eckstein’s Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores - True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers. It is a delightful description of many distinctive bookstores worldwide, complete with anecdotes from and about famous visitors as well as from the bookstores’ owners and employees. We, the readers, join Mr. Eckstein on his global book tour for a brief yet intriguing and insightful glimpse of some of the world’s most interesting, most unusual, oldest, and fabulous bookstores. We discover bookstores that have been in the same location for centuries, others that are on wheels, and one that floats, one that serves food and drink and gives away free books, while still others allow patrons to sleep in the aisles.
Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores has exceptional watercolors of each bookstore, painted by Mr. Eckstein. The anecdotes about each bookstore are fun to read, surprising, and memorable. Although Mr. Eckstein chose not to include the many ‘bookstore cat stories’ he heard, as a cat lover as well as a book lover I would have enjoyed reading at least one cat story. But I choose not to hold that against Mr. Eckstein and Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores because I absolutely love the concise artistic tour of bookstores around the world. The unique perspective offered by Mr. Eckstein motivates me to plan a lengthy around the world sojourn so I can experience Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores myself.
