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So I have this issue with buying books. I need to take a break. The piles are getting insane again even though most of the books are boxed away. Here are the most recent purchases. I think I bought all of these on the same day about two weeks ago. I hope by listing them here, I will encourage others to check them out, but I also now have a list of ( Read more... )

When I started at the corporate bookstore, there was a wonderful core of booksellers who worked at the information desk. I can only presume that the combined factors of paying very little and experimenting with hiring well-read hipsters created an environment where people who were very passionate about the cutting edges of literature, music, art ( Read more... )

Quote overheard in a bookstore:

"Why would anyone drink hot chocolate when they can have lots of single malt scotch?"

For a parsec, I'm seeing a confluence of clarity in the world. Why does everything only make sense to me when Mercury is in retrograde ( Read more... )

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About a week ago, I found a slip of paper on the floor saying:

Archer Meyor
Rick Hatchula

I wonder if the customer found any books, since both of the writers' names were spelled wrong.

A. J. Matthews was spelled really wrong, considering that I'm pretty sure the pen name outsells the real one.

( Hautala, Mayor )

I'm mostly running the show at the registers when I'm at the box-shaped megabookplace ( Read more... )

Heard the next aisle over, child had to be between five and seven based on voice ( Read more... )

There was an old lady who was lost in the parking lot and the bathroom at the same time. Or at least one of the two. I'd searched everywhere else. The family worried because she was "permanently addled" but laughed when the manager offered to call the police after ten minutes of looking. I guess the family was concerned that something bad had ( Read more... )