Browsers Welcome

bookstore blogs

There's a new, handy feature from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. It's a page on their website listing a collection of blogs by indie bookstores.
Check it out: here.

BTW - Today is the last day to enter to win a copy of Kristin Hannah's new book WINTER GARDEN.

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Dr. Temple Grandin is the author of The Way I See It and the subject of a new HBO film.

Quotable - Requiem for the Bookstore

"Bookstores have always mattered to me. I love visiting them, no matter the city or neighborhood. I love to see folks browse, check out the stacks, crack open something new and good…or old and good, for that matter. It’s a social thing for me, the way a sports bar makes a frat boy feel at home, or a botanical garden inspires an orchid enthusiast. I am nourished among titles and ink and the sorts of folks who show up to worship books in their shrines. ...

Maybe it’s inevitable that Americans sucked more and more into seclusion by so many factors—air conditioning, the Internet, dangerous neighborhoods, Dancing With The Stars, obesity, ageing, other excuses—will simply reach for a mouse instead of leaving a house.

Still, it somehow feels to me like a sign of failing culture to see a bookstore with boarded windows. No matter how many books can dance on the head of a Kindle or a Nook, a bookstore offers more—a social and cultural experience, a bond, a brother/sisterhood. A point of light."

~ Charles McNair, The Booky Man: Requiem for the Book Store

Shop local, Save the planet

Let's go to the bookstore

Does a chilly, rainy day put you in the mood to visit a great independent bookstore? Follow me, I'll take you to one of my favorites. Don't worry, you'll be back in less than two minutes. Let's go!



Do you know about the Independent Bookstore Reader's Challenge?