bookstores

My mother was in the hospital recently and while I was out there visiting, I had a chance once again to go to the little-hole-in-the-wall used bookstore called The Book Shop in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where my sister and mother live. It always amazes me the difference between that bookstore and the one we have here. The one here started out small like that one but it isn’t any longer and I have to admit that I miss that feeling. If you don’t know what I mean by hole-in-the-wall, let me explain. The one out there is in a small building with small rooms and books crammed on shelvesRead More →

-probably the first time we were on a family vacation and I found myself planning our schedule around where the bookstores where. What was really telling was that the family was going along with it. Now, that was a dead giveaway. Of course, nowadays, the son and daughter are almost as bad as I am but I did take some time for them to catch up. ;p  All of which brings me to one of the big things that I would personally love to collect is information about bookstores. Real brick and mortar ones. The big eye popping ones that are vacation spots all on their own forRead More →