Providence, We Are Coming For You With Our Library Cards.

Bookish Ructions readers, you are making a difference. You may not have known you have contributed to creating a “literary landscape.” Greater Hartford ranks number two in a ranking of best book cities, the Washington Post’s Book Club reports. Providence tops the list.

Clever Real Estate, The Post’s Ron Charles writes in his newsletter, “analyzed data on libraries, indie bookstores, literacy rates, bookish Google searches and coffee shops to rank the 50 most populous metro areas ‘from the best to the worst cities for book-lovers.'” 

Boston will be miffed to have placed third. College students reading Instagram and watching Tik Tok must not have been included in the calculation.

Now get back to Proust.

Published April 29, 2022.