Nov 7, 2009

Books are out of style.

At least in grand forks ND they are! They're closing the only two bookstores we have around here due to something like not having enough money to keep them up here and such. I'm so heart broken to hear this, I had spent all morning getting a list of books to save up for.. only to now know even when I have enough money I can't just go down to the local book store and pick it up!

Now I know you can always just get it online, but I've always been a bit uneasy buying stuff online. I prefer to be able to look and handle the product I'm interested in before making my final decision to purchase it. Looks like I won't have that option any more. :C

BUT since they are closing in the next few weeks me and katie decided to splurge a little bit and we each got two books. I got "The Pride of Bagdad" written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Niko Henrichon --- annnd "Mouse Guard - winter 1152" by David Petersen.. There's one before this one but they sadly didn't have it in stock so I'll have to do without it.

My sister Carmyn has her own library in her place, it's really neat to go and see all the book cases and the books she's collected and hoarded over the years. Well I actually want to do something similar to that, only instead of just random books and stories, I'd love to fill it up with art books that I've managed to collect. And I've finally got the list of how it will start, my AMAZON WISH LIST, not sure if the link will actually work but hopefully it does.

EDIT: And if you have any suggestions for me to check out, please comment below with links or just titles/authors! I'd love to check them out, so I'm pretty open for any suggestions. c:

Annnd so far that's all I got to share. Have some doodles of my wiz puppy. c:
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  1. CarmNovember 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM

    Pee wee, here's the deal. WE NEED A BOOKSTORE IN THIS TOWN. There's no way around it. Go to this link and make a suggestion that they add Grand Forks, ND as a Half Price Books location. http://halfpricebooks.com/customerservice/CustomerService.aspx Get everyone you know to do it!

    OR.... go to Borders and send them an email begging them to come... why Borders and not Barnes and Noble? Because we like Waldenbooks better and they are affiliated with Borders. Because you don't have to pay for your Borders reward card and they send you fantastic coupons constantly for 30% or 40% all the time. Also their educator's discount (this affects me) is for 25% rather than the 20% at most other stores. the UND bookstore (which is no no longer B & N Univ. Bookstore) is better than I thought it was but no teacher discount and half the books it once had. Still it's worth a visit, I suppose. Their bestseller list books are 30% off. And if a book can be found at Sam's it's usually 40% off the list price, but that's usually just a lot of Christian books, not the sort of specialty item you want.

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