Over the years, I’ve made the rounds at numerous local bookstores, both as a patron and a visiting author. Browsing these stores is a pleasurable combination of treasure hunting and making personal connections with the book enthusiasts who work there. I always come away with a positive feeling, which I can’t say about making hit-and-run Amazon.com book purchases.
My most recent bookstore visits were extra-positive because I found my latest book, MEMORY AND DESIRE, on the “Book Club” shelf at Barrett Bookstore in Darien, Connecticut, and on the “New and Notable” shelf at the excellent Barnes and Noble store in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We could all use a little more positivity in our lives these days. So, as a longtime proponent of local bookstores, I’d like to urge readers of this post to make the effort to seek out those bookstores while you’re out and about. Try to connect with the people who work there and see what kind of treasures you happen upon as you wander around. And if you spot MEMORY AND DESIRE along the way, feel free to snap a photo of it and post it as a comment to this post. I’d love to see where my book is being found by my readers.
Yes, I am a Conservative. Our local Anderson Bookstore used to be a go to place for books.
Now the high prices alone vs Costco or aTHRIFT books website have a great advantage paired with low mailing costs.
I recently got 2 books by Niall Williams, As it is in Heaven and the sensationa The Fall of Light were inexpensive and in great condition.
Problem #2 with Anderson is the openly admitted to not carrying Conservative non Fiction.
I went there for a Red Handed by Schweitzer which details all the people and companies that have sold us out to the Chinese and 2 books by Bjorn Lomborg that detail the fact the current green movement is not the solution, states what is and how current solar and wind and restrictions mainly hurt the world poor.
One of the owners said back to me we don’t get a call for those kind of ( bestseller) books.
The world is run by the elites but small minded Uber left book stores are not the answer
Bill Walsh