I Love My Blender

After a horrendous experience here on 25.11.2014 I’m keen to share my thoughts on this cute little bookshop run by a horrible little man. Weirdly, it reads much like the review written on 25.7.14…
During a brief trip to Paris with my sister we too stumbled upon this seemingly lovely bookshop. I was browsing the shelves and found a book I had been looking for for some time. I took my phone out to write down the name of the book to jog my memory later as hadn’t the cash to spend on the over-​priced book at the time (not a crime as far as I am aware) and was soon approached by who I assume was the shop owner, who we’d not actually spoken to until this point. What I first thought was him offering help soon turned into him telling me to «delete that photo off your posh phone». He then went on to shout aggressively at me about the shop not being «a library» and tell me of his difficulties in paying his rent each month. Again, this was in an incredibly aggressive and intimidating tone. I was not given the room to explain myself in between his hurls of abuse and eventually got walked out of the shop as he called me a «big bitch». My sister, then trapped inside the shop after he’d shut the door, became the victim of his abuse, and whilst trying to defend us both, the door was opened and he physically pushed her out of the shop, calling her too a «bitch». The onslaught and screams of «where are you from??» continued as we walked down the street. What a sad angry man. No wonder he can’t pay his rent each month.

This was the most humiliating shopping experience of my life. My sister and I stopped in this adorable bookstore to peruse their selection of books in English and to potentially pick up a charming gift for my friend. Only a couple of minutes into our experience my sister snapped a picture of the cover of a book whose title she wanted to remember (roughly equivalent to jotting down the name of the title these days in my opinion). The store owner went absolutely bezerk on her, ranting about how this is his own person collection of books (almost all of which are popular fiction and in most bookstores right now), that this was his livelihood, she should buy the book, this is not Amazon, and that she had to delete the picture immediately. Caught completely off guard, my sister conceded immediately, deleted the picture, and pleasantly suggested she had no intention except to record the book’s title. The man continued to aggressively and loudly shout at her, opened the front door and demanded she leave. As I went to follow her out, he literally shoved the glass door on me, pushing me out, and yelling, «Fucking Americans.» I can only imagine the people on the street who stopped and stared imagined that we were being accused of shoplifting. Humiliating! While I’m sorry about the dying art of book buying, my sister was mid contemplating buying one of the other books for our flight home tomorrow and is an avid reader and book buyer. What a complete asshole with a serious anger problem!

NE SURTOUT PAS RENTRER ! Un accueil déplorable, ego surdimensionné du librairie, pour ceux qui aiment flaner et feuilleter les livres, c’est interdit ici car il faut être silencieux, le propriétaire préfère lire tranquillement et boire son thé qu’accueillir le client. Une librairie doit être un lieu plein de vie et non un sanctuaire.
Courte vie à cette librairie !

And moi, I love cette librairie franco-​english qui regorge de knick-​knacks de papeterie so cute et de livres completely irrésistibles!

Une librairie, un libraire passionné par son métier, il n’en faut guere plus pour trouver son bonheur. Exellente adresse et tres bons conseils

I totally love I Love My Blender. For one, the name is ridiculously goofy and completely misleading. I mean, what is it? A home appliance store? A concept shop devoted to luxury mixing devices? A juice bar? Guess again. It’s a bookshop with english books on one side and their french translated equivalents on the other, thus the «blending» together of the two languages in one adorable shop.
Despite its small size, I love my blender manages to cover a lot of literary ground. Most of the titles are contemporary fiction with some current biographies and non-​fiction thrown in to round out the selection.
But the main attraction for me these days is the fantastic bi-​lingual children’s section. On a recent visit we picked up three amazing books that were recommended to us by the very helpful, and charming owner, who just lights up when you ask for his advice.

Attention c’est plutôt librairie spécialisée dans la littérature anglophone. Très bon conseil et j’ai découvert des auteur indiens, australiens, anglais et autre bien sur aussi des très bon auteurs américains

Christophe Persouyre a ouvert cette librairie en 2007. Et sa particularité: présenter des auteurs anglophones et essentiellement des romans. D’un côté des livres en anglais et de l’autre des livres traduits en français. J’adore ! Un beau rayon de livres pour enfants aussi. On peut aussi boire du thé ou du café tout en discutant avec le boss ou en regardant des livres. I love my blender vient de blender qui veut dire mixer car il mélange les livres avec d’autres choses comme des bougies, des petits jeux pour enfants, de la papeterie très jolie. Bref c’est top, c’est chou, c’est anglo-​saxons.
Tout pour plaire aux petits et aux grands.

I love this little bookstore: it stocks book in both English and French. It was the owner’s dream to have a bookshop and he set it up in 2007. It sells all sorts of intersting gifts too.

oui accueil très agréable, on peut meme y prendre un thé ou un café.
la déco de la vitrine est souvent changée et tres sympathique

librairie specialise dans la litterature americaine. Accueil charmant qui donne envie d’y passer des heures avec en plus de nombreux conseils.