Monday, February 25, 2008

Best Reason To Move To France


While my in-laws are ready to whisk themselves off to the French countryside for the "grilled cheese sandwiches" alone, I think I've found my big inducement to pick up stakes and move to France: the "City of Books."

"With 30 times as many books as people, the La Charite-sur-Loire has certainly earned the title "city of books," which has been proclaimed from the town sign for the past six years. Fittingly, regular book sales are held in the center on the third Sunday of every month. There's also a festival of words in August, an internationally known salon of old books in July and a book art fair in May."

(Thanks to The Literary Saloon for pointing out this story.)

1 comments:

JM said...

You don't have to go to France to visit a city of books. Texas has its own - Archer City, home of Booked Up, the 4 building bookstore owned by author Larry McMurtry.

http://www.helium.com/tm/849696/larry-mcmurtryits-degrees-according

http://www.bookedupac.com/