Bookstores

Every night before bed, I waited impatiently for my grandma to read me one of her beautiful novels. I would walk into our room, where the shadows of the trees danced around the peach colored walls. The window that overlooked the moon glistened and reflected onto the candles that my grandma would turn off as soon as I fell asleep. We laid on the bed snuggled in my overly large blanket, my leg thrown over her in a way to keep her locked there. Her voice softened as she read me my favorite story…

chose to study computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University. After graduated, he worked on Wall Street and became vice president at investment firm, D.E Shaw. In 1994, he quit his job and started Amazon.com, a virtual online bookstore which had become one of the largest online…

2. Does Individual Visit Scheme bring contribution to Hong Kong? Individual Visit Scheme has brought multiple contributions on tourism supply. Before the implementation of Individual Visit Scheme, Hong Kong tourism industry mainly relies on the market in Western countries and South East Asia. According to a research, the total number of visitors is 13725322 in 2001. Mainland visitors only occupy a proportion of 32.4%; Meanwhile, non-mainland visitors share the remaining 67.6%. However, mainland…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines being “spoon-fed” as being “fed with a spoon.” And although this is most certainly true, there is so much more to the word. As a child, I loved to be spoon-fed – mashed carrots, soft yams, mushy peas. I loved them all. But it didn’t end there. I also had an insatiable curiosity. Where did the dinosaurs go? Why is that man homeless? Where do babies come from? My parents would always patiently listen and spoon-feed me a quick and simple answer. Growing up I…

Despite the common idiom “don’t judge a book by it’s cover,” book covers play an essential role in grabbing attention from potential readers. Book covers leave lasting impressions on people in a bookstore or in the appstore, and are more influential and eye-catching than a summary. With this knowledge in mind, most publishers choose flashy and memorable covers as a means of luring in an eager audience. However, for world renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald, book covers serve a much more…

signs that state in bold letters, “GET OUT”, another picket sign visually screams “Haunt Another Community”. On the door of the closed book store there is a sign that legible says to those in the community, “NO Cops or Police Stoggers Allowed in the Bookstore”. Instead of committing crimes to get their message out they are doing the complete opposite by resorting to a peaceful protest where instead of asking for help they are rejecting it and driving it away from their…

From the “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe, “Chac-mool” by Carlos Fuentes, to “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. Not to mention, Antigone by Sophocles, Mr. Penumbra 's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, and Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, my interest in a variety of book genres has grown immensely. Each story has captivated me in its own unique way. Every character was so distinctive and complex. As though they were…

For many years paper and ink were the only available platform for reading and transcribing the written word but with a recent surge in reading amongst younger generations and several advances in technology have caused a demand for alternative options to bulky and damage prone paper and ink tomes. Many booksellers rose to the challenge by creating new eReaders capable of holding several hundred books in a small electronic tablet. Though many people enjoy using these tablets for reading, there has…

The introductory part of Lionheart Gal (2005), written by Honor Ford Smith, provides significant information about the lives of Jamaican women. Therefore, it will enable an in-depth understanding of the subject. According to Honor Ford Smith, two images of the black women exist in the psyche of Caribbean women (xiii). There are the ‘warrior woman’, a leader, and the ‘domesticated servant woman’ (xiii). The first is the one who tries to change her condition as an oppressed while the latter is…

Comparing Three Detective Novels All the three excerpts from “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley, “Murder Is My Business” by Lynette Prucha and “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler are detective genre stories set in Los Angles. The investigators and their clients share some similarities and differences particularly with respect to their roles in shaping the plot and the main themes in the stories. Firstly, the three stories are set in Los Angeles. “The Big Sleep” is typically set during a…