Unpacking the Bookstore

Borders: Streamlining or Sacrificing?

What do you see when you hear the word “bookstore”? Close your eyes, take a breath, and say the word to yourself. Say it again. Does the image change? Is it a memory or an imagined place you explored in a dream or a picture you saw browsing the web? The first thing...

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Walking into Heaven

Christopher Morley clearly states how valuable he finds books to be in his novel The Haunted Bookshop.  I think many readers would agree with the Protagonist’s statement that “there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good...

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