In which I venture into the snowy streets to support a local business

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Yesterday, I wandered over to Uncle Edgar’s Mystery Bookstore to procure a signed copy of Thai Die for trek.

Here’s Monica Ferris signing trek’s very own copy.

Behind her, you can see part of two aisles and thus get a sense of how many new and used books are stuffed into Uncle Edgar’s and Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore. (The front half of the building is Uncle Hugo’s and the back half is Uncle Edgar’s.)

If you want your local independent booksellers to survive, please support them!

“Books. BORING. Sometimes tasty, sometimes fun to knock over Mom’s stacks of books, but otherwise…” -Mayhem

26 thoughts on “In which I venture into the snowy streets to support a local business”

  1. Wow! You sound just like a human, 2 year old 😉 I’ve lost count of how many books I’ve had to toss because they had chewed up corners.

  2. We have a great bookstore in town, that I make sure I go to when I need to buy books. I have to admit, I use the library for my own use, but when gifts are needed I’m at the local place! I agree that we need to support them as much as possible.

  3. Chris- I am a huge supporter of the independants- we used to have some amazing ones up here, but then &%*#ing Chapters moved in.

    I think I need some mousie time.

  4. We had 2 independents here: one very good one and one awful one, where they were rude (at every of multiple visits) and acted like they didn’t want to sell me a book–No asking questions!! Unfortunately, at the good one the owner retired and closed. I won’t shop at the other, although natives do just because it’s an independent. Pretty is as pretty does in my book.

    No eating books, May!

  5. Mayhem, hasn’t your mother taught you to read yet? Tsk.

    Yay for LBS! And LYS. I’m lucky, I have several good ones of both to choose from. Hmmm. Perhaps I should support one today……

  6. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an independent near my area.

    Of course, luckily Minneapolis is not so far away…

  7. (Pssst, Mayhem. Books can be fun if you open them up and use them as a scratching toy. But I never told you that. Kitty, who’s friends with Java da Pup.)

  8. We have so few independents left in New York City…went into two yesterday, one all used books, and felt righteous till your post ’cause I didn’t buy anything. But did buy knit mag in my LYS and hope that counts.

  9. Catching up on blogs, and from reading your post I find out that an author I like had a new book out. Actually, I found about three books. I’ll be off to check them out at the library.

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