There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.
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I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.
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