I still remember the first time I met this bookstore, close to noon, I was hungry and ran to the back street of CITIC to look for food, the back street is on the ground floor, take the stairs down to the negative floor, and then into the bookstore, the bookstore atmosphere is very good, but I decided to eat first, so I walked through the bookshelves without stopping, passed the front desk, and inadvertently glimpsed the catering sign on the dumplings, so decided to stay and eat dumplings. stay for the dumplings.
"Give me some dumplings," I said impatiently to the clerk at the front desk of the bookstore. The young male clerk (I later learned that most of the clerks here are bookstore volunteers who come to experience life) slowly handed me a piece of paper, "Answer the questions on it correctly before you can order".
I don't know what else to do! Hurry to answer the question, I cover the rumbling stomach, look down at the question, a look silly, the first question: "The Moon and Sixpence" who is the author? The next four questions are so unfamiliar that I can't remember them now. The reason why I remembered the Moon and Sixpence was not because I knew who its author was, but simply because the title was new and I had never heard of it.
None of the five questions! LOL! These days, it's terrible to be uneducated, and money can't buy you food! I was frustrated and said to the clerk, "I don't know any of the questions you asked. The clerk said calmly, all right, you can Baidu or in the store to find the answer, these books we have in the bookstore. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it.
The first time I met such a mess, but it aroused my curiosity about this bookstore, so there was a second and third time, of course, I will never come hungry again, and after reading its books, I lost interest in its dumplings, because I always feel that eating dumplings in a bookstore does not seem to be in the right mood.
I've read a lot of books in this bookstore, including Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age, and Haruki Murakami's essays. I haven't bought any books, but every time I come here, I order a cup of freshly brewed black tea, to offset the uneasiness that comes from rubbing my nose in the books and not buying them. The bookstore has its own publication called 1200km, through which I also learned the origin and story of the bookstore.
The owner of the bookstore, Liu Erxixi, graduated from South China University of Technology, worked as an architect, and after traveling 1200km around Taiwan on foot, he was inspired by the 24-hour bookstore in Taipei to open the first 24-hour bookstore in Guangzhou, called 1200bookshop. I haven't seen him before, but sitting in the bookstore, I can feel his heart in every way.
The bookstore is not big, but the layout is compact and elegant. In the middle of the rows of bookshelves, there are six tables and chairs for free reading area, and a sofa reading area where you need to buy a drink, and in a compartment, behind the bookshelves, there are also four small rooms, with a simple bed and a table for backpackers to use for free at night. The owner of Two Happiness jokingly called himself a "nightclub", a "nightclub" with feelings.
It's hard for a bookstore to make a profit, and the slogan of Xi's boss has always been "A 24-hour bookstore is a proof of the existence of human beings, doing business in the daytime, and doing business at night with an attitude and warmth". The reason why he is so confident to do this bookstore is because he also has two coffee shops to help him make a profit.
The bookstore has books and many stories of people who love books. Every Saturday night at 12:00, the bookstore has a late-night story-sharing session, where people from different industries and different backgrounds converge to share their own stories, and hope that they will have the opportunity to participate.
1200bookshop, hope to see you all the time ......