I went to “The Last Bookstore” in downtown L.A. and came out happy after seeing thousands of books in this quirky place!

Last time I was in Los Angeles I bought a bunch of used books about wine and took them back to Paris; the books were great and I like the bookstore’s sense of humor:

Even funnier are their section of “books by color”!

They have taken this idiocy to the max:

Only people who love books can laugh at them like this by arranging them by color!

Some people play chess,

some chat,

but they mainly read…

They have a little art gallery :

There is a Borg section,

that I liked a lot:

I was even able to find one of my favorite issues of National Geographic magazine about Suleiman the Magnificent from 1987!

Just some snow outside and it would have been a perfect christmas scene…

No snow but they have this amazing labyrinth made out of books that starts with a funny tunnel:

with a soldier standing guard outside…

If you don’t like what you read, you know what to do:

But when you get over your anger, you can sit down quietly and read again,

A nice book about Christmas,

before these ladies get angry at you…

And throw you out of…

Merry Christmas everybody!

See my 2007 Christmas in Beverly hills here.

See my 2009 Christmas in Strasbourg here.