Recently, a friend shared that her daughter and colleagues were starting a used and vintage online book shop. Wanting to support them, I signed up. After taking a look, I was intrigued. The company is called Vignette Books (@vignettebookshop on instagram, http://www.vignettebooks.com). Their approach is that customers self-select an “Edit;” which is essentially a category of books. They have a quiz for customers to find out which Edit most matches their interests. I took the quiz and found the “Natural” Edit was a good fit for me.
So, you select an Edit, and then order a set of 1 to 3 books that Vignette Books picks from you from a curated set of used and vintage books in their inventory.
My order came a week or two ago and I was pleasantly pleased with the selections. One was a book about whales, their evolution, and history. I read that one first. I think I could now have a chance in any Jeopardy category about whales 🙂
The second was a biography about Rachel Carson, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I knew Carson wrote Silent Spring, but I didn’t realize that her background was marine biology and that she had written 3 award winning books on the ocean, sea birds, and other sea life prior to writing Silent Spring. So, now I’ve begun reading them. See how that expanding horizons thing works?
The next book of my three from Vignette Books is in the on-deck circle, and it is a story of a trek through the Arizona desert to find a stone carving of a maze similar to one found in Wales. I’m looking forward to that one, too.
If you, too, are intrigued, check out Vignette Books!
Sheila365 