My favorite fantasy read - Owning a bookshop

Jenny Colgan's
The Bookshop on the Corner

Escapist literature is different for every reader and every once in a while you just need to get away from the world and into a good book. Life has been stressful lately - job, a family member with health problems, and the national election season - and I for one just needed to get away from it all. Thanks to the local library I found just the thing in Jenny Colgan's newest The Bookshop on the Corner. Colgan took me to Scotland and introduced me to a wonderful group of townsfolk, and to Nina Redmond a laid-off librarian who found the gumption to become the owner of a traveling bookshop.

Oh I've read lots of books that take place in bookshops and I dream of one day being independently wealthy enough to run one of my own. I know it's not easy running your own business let alone run a bookshop in today's electronic age. But studies show that people still like to read paper books and it might just lead to living longer. And who wouldn't want to tap into that.

I think this fantasy of mine may have started with reading Carolyn G. Hart's Death on Demand series where her protagonist inherits her uncle's bookstore. Other mystery based stories by Lorna Barrett's  set in a fictious Southern New Hampshire town, which based on the geographic clues isn't all that far from where I live, continue to feed my fantasies. As long as there are authors willing to write stories about bookstores, I will be willing to read them.

In search of a good read links:
Cozy mysteries set in bookstores