Duttons

             United states is a very new country comparing to the
             other European countries. I found my self very lonely sometimes, because there is nothing in Los Angeles that reminds me of the city that grew up in. It was very hard for me at the beginning to adjust to Los Angeles, but now I got use to it. Now new tall buildings looks like I lived here all my life and that memory of my beautiful Kiev got suppress in my heart. Assignment that I got in my English class sounded wired to me at first , but then when I entered the Dutton's I began to understand. That little store in the corner of Laurel Canyon is not just a book store, it's a piece of Europe in the middle of the valley. Dutton's is a bookstore that brings warm memories to my heart. This store not only reminded me of my former home but also brought me good memories of my childhood.
             When I was a little girl I spend a lot of time with my grandparents and they had a huge library in their house. My grandma never aloud me touch old books, but if I wanted to read them I could read them only in her house. I don't know how but when I visited Dutton's it reminded me of my grandmothers house. Her house had similar brownish furniture a lot of book shelves. I also remember that I always could of found any kind of books. There were old books, new books, books that were readied so many times that they were glued together .
             She had all the books lined up on the shelves , and old books hidden behind the glass, like at Dutton's. She would line them up by authors, almost like in library. Her library had some kind of the smell and I felt the same smell while I were in Duttons. It is a smell of paper mixed up with glue , I believe, but to me it was a smell of my childhood. The dim light gives a little shadows to the books and it looked very powerful to me.
             Kiev have a lot of history to it,
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