Thursday, September 24, 2020

Store Closing Haul

The mega Books-A-Million store over in Sanford is closing, and offered an extra 20% off on their current stock -- all sales final -- so I went over to do some shopping. Safely but sadly there was no one in the store but me the entire time I was there.

The Holly Jackson novel is for Katherine, the Halloween board book is for Oliver, and the copy of Garden Spells is to keep on hand because I give that book to everyone. The rest of the books are for me. I love Anne Cleeves, and the Galbraith novel sounded interesting (the first couple weren't, but I'm willing to take another chance.) The Escape Room is by a new-to-me author, plus it was cheap. The GreenCraft mag is just a guilty pleasure.

Hopefully the smaller BAM nearer to me won't close. I don't buy many books from brick-and-mortar stores these days, but that's really the last one within reasonable driving distance.

2 comments:

Maria Zannini said...

I didn't know Books a Million was still in business. They had closed the stores near us (both in north and east Texas) years ago. It used to be one of our favorite haunts.

nightsmusic said...

I haven't read anything by Anne Cleves except for her Shetland series which I read oh...in a week? It was fabulous. You made a good haul. The only Books a Million close to me is about an hour and a half away. This all makes me sad though. There's still a BN about 40 minutes from me, but when we lived in Plymouth, there was a reasonably sized bookstore that was within walking distance for us. I'd take the girls on Saturday mornings for their kid's reading time and I'd sit and have a coffee at the beverage bar and read or go looking for new books. They'd been there for many, many years and closed not long after we moved. :(

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