Full name: Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

Author: Jeremy Mercer Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312347406 0312347405

Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff. Time Was Soft There is the story of a journey down a literary rabbit hole in the shadow of Notre Dame, to a place where a hidden bohemia still thrives. Similar books: Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod Paris in Love by Eloisa James Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas True Pleasures by Lucinda Holdforth The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Shakespeare and Company, Paris by Krista Halverson Almost French by Sarah Turnbull L'Appart by David Lebovitz Books by Larry McMurtry Our Paris by Edmund White The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart The Salt Path by Raynor Winn Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez Waterlog by Roger Deakin