I was just having a conversation with a friend about the two classic Starbucks books: Passion for Coffee and Pleasures of Summer. Starbucks produced both books in the mid-1990s, in partnership with Sunset Books. In years past, I’ve mentioned these books before. In 2012, I mentioned Pleasures of Summer, and in 2009, when this blog was less than 90 days old and almost nobody had heard of it, I wrote about Passion for Coffee here. Actually, I always find it a little bit odd to look at really old blog posts on this site because both my writing and how I think about Starbucks has changed. I’ve learned a lot since 2009! Of course, we’re all constantly learning. You never know what you don’t know, and we all think we know more than we really do. It’s human nature.
Anyways, these are visually beautiful books, and I thought I’d leave you dreaming about them for your essential Starbucks book collection. There will be no new StarbucksMelody updates until mid to late next week – I’m off on vacation. (I hope you will check out the book that I authored, Tales of the Siren.) Feel free to talk about anything Starbucks related. I’ll see you back in roughly one week.
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These look great. I’ll add them to my Starbucks wish list!
Have a great vacation!!
@Chris – Thank you!
Oh wow thanks for shating these. I must get them. I must have them!! And I am getting them. I lucked out finding both on betterworldbooks.com. I was surprised too! This is where I also got how Starbucks saved my life and pour your heart into it.
They still have a couple copies left of the two you mentioned. So good luck to whom ever else snatches them.
May the beans be ever in your coffee. Ok it was a chessey hunger games turned coffee pun, sue me. Wait don’t, you could. 🙂
I wish Starbucks would do more of this kind of thing nowadays. I found their Holiday merchandise very disappointing this year.
Both are on Amazon. I got one for .01!