LIECHTENSTEIN
Bookshops and its books
Reading is for me today what music used to be.
I have therefore decided to visit bookshops wherever I happen to be. And there I buy one book each time that is displayed as recommendation.
If there are no staff picks, I choose one that has obviously been laid out.
By the way, this could be a chance to get rid of a book that has been sitting in the shop for years :-)
I rate the bookshop on selection, interior design and friendliness - the book according to my taste. Of course, it is often a matter of luck which one I finally choose.
Please note this is my personal opinion. My taste often differs from the general public.
Thank you to all the wonderful booksellers! It's nice that there are still so many great bookshops.
My rating is as follows:
***** outstanding
**** very good
*** good
** okay
* needs improvement
SCHAAN
Omni AG
Poststrasse 27, Schaan
From Buchs in Switzerland, you only need to cross the Rhine to reach Schaan in Liechtenstein.
When you walk up to the bookshop, you immediately notice the SKINO lettering.
You quickly realize that you're not just walking into a bookstore, because it has several components: cinema, coffee, bookstore, antiquarian bookshop.
The store has a very young feel to it, as you can see from the staff picks. The "blind dates with a book" are very lovingly done.
The concept didn't particularly appeal to me. I also didn't like the interior ver much which is very dark, especially in the corner of the antiquarian bookshop. I was missing something.
Nevertheless, a good and very friendly store.
Michelle Marly : Der Glanz der Zukunft
Not read yet
Bookshop:
***
Book:
VADUZ
Bücherwurm AG
Städtle 19, Vaduz
This bookshop is located in the center of Liechtenstein's capital Vaduz on the top floor of a stationery store.
Unfortunately, it is often the case that books have to make way for stationery items. This is an extreme pity, as they are usually found in a dark corner. Unfortunately, this corner has also been designed in a correspondingly unkind way.
On the other hand, the bookseller was extremely friendly, which is somewhat standard in Liechtenstein. The people are extremely hospitable!
I even got a chocolate bunny for Easter. Thank you!
Dani Shapiro : Signal Fires
The story begins with 17-year-old Sarah, who has been drinking, letting her 15-year-old brother Theo drive the car. An accident occurs right in front of their home. A third person is in the car and dies.
The father of the two siblings is a doctor and wants to provide first aid, but he shouldn't have moved the victim.
What begins tragically soon becomes confused in a colourful mixture of all sorts of topics that the author probably wanted to cover and, in my opinion, linked together in an average way: Alzheimer's, cancer, premature birth, becoming an astrophysicist, alcohol addiction, corona pandemic, etc.
The author also tried to pick up on situations from the past and then again from current life. In my opinion, she didn't succeed at all in this back and forth. It also made little sense in the sequence in which it was told.
This novel didn't reach me at all. This certainly also has to do with the protagonists, who seemed so clichéd American to me.
Bookshop:
***
Book:
**