M. Judson Booksellers

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For a variety of reasons, we make the 5-ish-hour drive from Lexington to Greenville, SC, a few times a year. And whenever we’re there, one of my favorite downtown places to visit is M. Judson Booksellers.

How can you possibly go wrong with a bright, sunny bookstore in a historic building? Especially when it’s filled with novels, booksellers’ recommendations, local- and regional-interest books (both fiction and nonfiction), gifts, puzzles, cookbooks, a large and inviting children’s section, and … cupcakes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you’re in the Upstate, we highly recommend a visit to the ever-cheerful M. Judson.

 

Hi, there! I’m Jennifer, and I help too-busy-to-read bookworms and those who want to *be* readers maximize life’s simple joys — like reading a good book — by helping them create quiet spaces (mentally and physically) inspired by the habits of cats, who are masters at finding joy in life’s small details.

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“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.”

W. Somerset Maugham

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Cicero

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Marcel Proust

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

Helene Hanff

“What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books … birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them!”

Elizabeth von Arnim

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”

Neil Gaiman

“The art of reading is … an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us; when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“When I … looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness.”

Elizabeth von Arnim