There are bookstores, and then there are bookstores that ruin you for every other bookstore. Florida has one of the second kind.
The moment I heard about it, I drove there without a plan, without a list, and without nearly enough time. What I found was the kind of place that serious book people talk about in hushed, almost reverent tones.
The inventory is massive, the prices make no sense in the best possible way, and the whole setup rewards the kind of slow, aimless browsing that modern life rarely allows. Florida is full of good bookstores, but this one operates on a completely different level…