I hope that all the Border's don't go. My local Borders actually does events for local authors and community outreach stuff - where the B&N does not.
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Jan 07, 2011 10:27:00 am PST #15401 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
brenda m - Jan 07, 2011 10:27:38 am PST #15402 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I did just buy one of the two copies of Barb's book at the State St. Borders today.
-t - Jan 07, 2011 10:29:28 am PST #15403 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not only are there no locally-owned bookstores in my town (or the next town over which is practically my town), people come here from Vallejo to go to B&N (I think that's it) because there are no bookstores at all there. None!
We do have a comic book shop, though, and I patronise the hell out of that place.
Jesse - Jan 07, 2011 10:30:22 am PST #15404 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The only reason I know those stores apart is that Borders lets you do your own computer searches while B&N makes you actually search out and talk to a human.
Not true! At least, the Barnes and Noble('s) I go to most often lets you search yourself.
On reflection, I think I add "the" more than the possessive.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2011 10:31:38 am PST #15405 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Support your locally-owned bookseller!
Find me one! Seriously, in LA, it's so much easier to find an independent cinema than a bookstore.
zuisa - Jan 07, 2011 10:32:20 am PST #15406 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I hate writing cheques. I want to switch to fully online bill-paying but my mother objects and I have no backbone.
Additionally, in today's 7th grade history class, a bunch of students knocked a framed newspaper article from 1964 off the wall and shattered the frame everywhere. I wanted to cry.
lisah - Jan 07, 2011 10:33:40 am PST #15407 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Find me one!
Well, my friends' store does a ton of online business plus there's Powell's.
Amy - Jan 07, 2011 10:35:33 am PST #15408 of 30001
Because books.
Well, my friends' store does a ton of online business plus there's Powell's.
We have a huge one here, Chester County Books & Music, and when I did a blog post about books the other day, I included links from them instead of Amazon.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 07, 2011 10:36:05 am PST #15409 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
When I worked at Penney's a lot of people would think they were in The Bon Ton. I did almost lose it once when a little old lady said, "What do you mean, I'm not in The Bon Bon?!?!"
megan walker - Jan 07, 2011 10:38:28 am PST #15410 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I blame the McDonald's conglomerate for that, actually. And Starbucks, I guess, even though it isn't possessive.
I blame Truman Capote.