Bookstores

of a mystical setting to contrast Marilyn Monroe’s true personality. In Three Girls, the setting takes place in New York, in a popular bookstore named the Strand. The short story begins with a feeling of enchantment as the girls walk down Broadway and Twelfth on a perfectly snowy night. They walk into the Strand, and the narrator in awe, describes the bookstore as a “warehouse of treasures as through…

You head over to the campus bookstore before your first day of classes and realize you'll be spending more $500-plus on textbooks. There has to be a better way, and there just may be. Take a look at these simple tips: Do NOT buy textbooks before the first day of class. Walk around…

year because I can attend ones that genuinely interest me. Joy Williams reading at Green Apple Books was no different. Ms. Williams walked into the bookstore wearing all black clothing and large sunglasses. Even as she began readings she failed to remove her sunglasses. Her appearance was off putting as it was clearly nighttime and she was in a bookstore. However, after hearing her read, I found her writing style was quite humorous and overshadowed her outlandish outfit. Her book of short…

Banks was at a book signing in his hometown of Boston, across the street from the bookstore where he once worked. He reminisces briefly about his life in the city. He had been a dropout, and it is implied that he lived in some level of poverty. In his own words, “I was literary, but not very literate, a late-arriving beatnik with a taste mainly for getting wasted” (Banks 8). He lost his job at the bookstore after having a nervous…

Many people have produced different types of objects, websites, or ideas to advance our technology. Technology is the application of knowledge for practical skills. Some individual’s ideas have even made a great change in how we live today. These great ideas and creations are followed by many years of education and hard work. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is a very brilliant man that made our online shopping easier and faster. Amazon is the largest retailer on the World Wide…

on distributing certain amount of the books to different locations. The company will be able to earn profits by doing so. In order to make such precise decision, I will take an in-person research to different possible retail environments, such as bookstores, libraries, gift stores, galleries, and even some fashion institutions to know about the sales volumes of each locations. Therefore, I will be able to understand whether or not my editorial niche is doable. Additionally, I can also make a…

placed near a college in the mountains, and from the expanding window an onlooker could see the student artwork draped along the walls of either brick or vintage styled wallpaper. The cake decorators will be easily visible for the customers, the bookstore will either be up a small spiraling staircase with each step painted as a famous book, or an outward extension of the Bakery that is connected with the lounge area, and the said lounge area…

For instance, working as a team lead at the UGA Bookstore I serve as a delegate in serving UGA visitors, students/alumni and faculty/staff, with all their UGA related needs. I take pride assisting customers to the best of my ability. In store, I operate as a mediator between the retail associates and management…

novel through a series of Herve's diary entries. He is a character who was anti-conformist (as was Quebec to Canada) in an environment full of conformists; at least, this was his assumption before realizing how many citizens of the town came to his bookstore to purchase forbidden…

The difference between having a Creator mindset and having a Victim mindset is the difference between success and failure. In his book, On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, Dr. Skip Downing defines Creators as people who make choices that result in the outcomes they want to achieve. He defines Victims, however, as people who leave their choices to chance, reacting to things that happen in their lives, instead of making things happen, which often has unfavorable…