HeyJaredEscape to the Bookshop
Opening a bookshop in Italy. Follow along and share the journey!
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How to write in a notebook every day (opens the original)
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My mom bought me my first diary when I was six. And immediately, I felt behind. Six years left unrecorded! I’d lost so much time.It seems my perfectionist tendencies were entrenched already. Maybe I was born with them. Eldest daughter, and all that. Are you a perfectionist too? Let’s be perfectionists together.<input class="button primary" type="submit" value="
Bookish spots in Amsterdam, part 2 (opens the original)
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As someone who has called this city home for twelve years now, I can definitively say that autumn is the season for Amsterdam.Of course, it’s also true that spring in Amsterdam is full of flowers.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="htt
Books for autumn evenings (opens the original)
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I’m forever meaning to write you a post of book recommendations. In fact, I’m forever meaning to make book recommendations a regular feature of this newsletter. Not least because way back when I started Escape to the Bookshop, I did a poll on what people wanted to read, and book recommendations were highest on the list. I’ve felt guilty about that ever since.But every time I sit down to do it, the enormity overwhelms me. How to distill all the love I have for my favourite books into mere words?
Use that pretty notebook (opens the original)
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I used to be the kind of person who accumulated empty notebooks. I kept on buying them, then finding them too beautiful to use. Even less could I bring myself to write in a notebook that was a gift. I’d tell myself I was saving it for something special. But really, I think I was afraid. What if I gave up halfway through? Or wrote something that wasn’t perfect? Sometimes I think what I really meant was, ‘what if I’m not worthy of this notebook?’<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h
When abroad becomes home (opens the original)
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I’m back in Amsterdam after a summer spent in Narni. And this is the first time since we bought our house in 2024 where I’ve felt like I was really living in Italy. At least a little bit.I’m no stranger to moving abroad. The Bookish Husband and I spent most of our twenties in and out of different countries. Which means that instead of just being homesick for my native California, I miss Tunisia, the Philippines, Chile, Ireland, and even (occasionally) Florida. For the moment, we’re living betwee
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