Comments on: Bookstore anecdote

By: suzanh

suzanh — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:58:00 +0000

I can’t remember the name of the one on South U, but it was downstairs – and it smelled. Musty-like.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:30:00 +0000

Suzan, the really smelly ones? Just curious, but did you mean that literally? Which ones smell? Is there some bookstore in town that I don’t know about?

Laura, I understand. Nicola’s is close to my house, in a strip mall with plenty of free parking. On the other hand, I still remember the good old days when Borders WAS our indie. The Borders family lived in my neighborhood, in fact, and I occasionally babysat their kids. Oh, the stories I could tell…! ;-)

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 09 May 2006 06:22:00 +0000

Well, in defense of my visit to Border’s, we have one of the best indies in the world up here too, Powell’s. But it’s a drive and I only make it every few months. So I do turn to the big places, grudgingly, when short on time.

By: suzanh

suzanh — Tue, 09 May 2006 04:13:00 +0000

I love independent stores. We had the best independent video store. I walked in and asked, “Hey, do you have that movie about the Asian high school kids who form a gang?” and the guy said, “Better Luck Tommorrow? Right over there.”

I can’t tell you how great that was.

There out of business now, which sucks, but I love Ann Arbor book stores. Even the really smelly ones.

By: factcheckerworm

factcheckerworm — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:22:00 +0000

heh heh heh