Bookstores always suck me in…
I don’t know what it is about bookstores that always suck me in, but I can’t just browse I have to buy. Not only buy, but also buy more than I intend.

The other day I went to Barnes and Noble to pick up Susan Johnson’s new book At Her Service. I went specifically to buy her book and that was all, but somehow I walked out of the bookstore with her book and four others.

It’s very rare that I walk out of a bookstore without spending close to a hundred dollars. I blame the tables. Some marketing guru for Barnes and Noble researched people like me and understand that if they group certain types of literature together on tables… people will buy. It’s that whole “If you build it, he will come” concept.

Barnes and Noble built it and I came and bought.

The problem is I get sucked into bookstores more often than I should. But really is that a bad thing? Books stimulate the mind, imagination and transport you to other worlds. Books make you laugh out loud and cry. Books connect you to characters in ways that movies or video games can’t.

Books are definitely a vice of mine, but they’re not a bad habit. Reading has never been bad for you!

Bookstores can suck me in anytime…

Labels: Barnes and Noble, books, bookstores, erotica, impulse buying, Literature, Reading, Susan Johnson

  posted by Matildakay at 10:32 PM