#84 charing cross road

[normasshearer]

I love inscriptions on flyleafs and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned and reading passages someone long-gone has called my attention to.

ANNE BANCROFT as Helene Hanff in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD (1987) dir. David Jones

[mrmousetolliver]

84 Charing Cross Road (1937) photographed by Wolfgang Suschitzky

[verypersonalscreencaps]

TOP 5 FIRST-TIME WATCHES OF SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2024

1. OUR LITTLE SISTER (海街diary) (2015, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) 2. 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD (1987, dir. David Hugh Jones) 3. LES DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT (1971, dir. François Truffaut) 4. MARCELLO MIO (2024, dir. Christophe Honoré) 5. JULIETTE AU PRINTEMPS (2024, dir. Blandine Lenoir)

[fictionadventurer]

Me: Everything I've been reading lately is really meta--books about writers and books and genre conventions--and it's interfering with my writing process. I need to read stories that are just stories and not books about other books.

Me, ten seconds later: Rereads 84, Charing Cross Road and watches a Youtube series about Wishbone.

[ofliterarynature]

An eclectic little birthday haul (sponsored by my mom <3)

[foreign-bodies]

84 Charing Cross Road; Anthony Hopkins

[secretceremonies]

84 Charing Cross Road (1987) | dir. David Hugh Jones

[amazonykamiaba]

In fact this @ doesn't exist anymore, but I still like it :))

[randomrichards]

R.I.P. TONY TODD:

Man with booming voice

Becomes a horror icon

And great voice actor

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

This is my second read-through of this small collection of letters between Helene Hanff and the staff at Marks & CO., Booksellers and how their relationships grew through the letters and through the years. Just lovely, and I love how Helene Hanff writes, she's hilariously dry!

[quillandqueer]

[normasshearer]

A newspaperman I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature. And he said, "Then, it's there."

84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 1987, dir. David Jones

[mrmousetolliver]

84 Charing Cross Road (1987) starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins

The movie is based on the memoir 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, which is an epistolary memoir composed of letters from the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London.

While the shop closed in 1970, the building still exists and there is a plaque that acknowledges the story and marks the site. I have watched the movie numerous times and highly recommend it but be warned it is one of those stories where nothing big happens but a lot of little things happen that add up to a big thing. And the description on the poster above is misleading since technically the relationship between the two main characters could be described as a "love affair" it is not a romance movie.

[auxoubliettes]

84 Charing Cross Road, dir. David Jones (1987)

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

the proper response to reading pride and prejudice

[laddersofsweetmisery]

Just finished up this delightful, little read this morning titled 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff ❤️ It was a lighthearted break from the darker, more serious stuff I usually read. It's the perfect book for a sunny spring morning. Now, I'm left saddened by the decline in letter writing and I want nothing more than to peruse Helene Hanff's book collection! I'm sure her collection was a marvel based on the books she bought from the charming Mr. Frank Doel of Marks & Co. I definitely recommend for anyone looking for a short, pleasant read. Helene's wit, humor, and generosity is enough to make anyone smile, even that of an old book dealer in London.

It's a shame that with the evolution of the internet, all of our correspondences are via email, text message, or over the phone. I'm a little saddened to know that future museums won't be filled with correspondences from this time, it also leaves you with a physical memento of those we cherish. Imagine pulling out a box from the back of your closet and relishing over old letters, postcards, and notes from everyone you've loved throughout your life--I'm regretful that I'll never experience that. Instead, all I have to relish are k's and lol's from my facebook messenger. Don't get me wrong, the internet has given us so much in regards to accessibility and connection, but there are things we've surely lost along the way.