Opening Week at Ann Arbor's New Independent Bookstore

Literati Bookstore, at the corner of Washington and Fourth, is open for business. Readers rejoice.

The new bookshop writes about its ongoing state of emergence at its blog:

Second, we have a suggestion list in our store for customer recommendations! Please be patient with our growing inventory. If there’s not something you think we should have, say so! We are only as good of a bookstore as our ability to give our community what it wants. We left room in our inventory to grow, learn what Ann Arbor wants, what it wants to buy, and give a few suggestions of our own.

On overhearing the early customers:

-A guy walked down the stairs, looked around, and said with a smile, “This is f**king AWESOME!”

-”Daddy, I’m going to go get Mommy upstairs because I found a book that she will just LOVE to see.”

-”Books! Wonderful books! Books, I tell you!”

-”This is the best day.”