And they had a HUGE miniature train display that was amazing. They had all sorts of tiny little people posed all over and even "underground" and they had stories for all the different settings.
And, more on the bookstore....It was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! It's called the Stately Raven Bookstore. The walls were painted all cozy colors, and there are chairs and couches, the stairs to get to the various levels are gorgeous. The balcony is a beautiful cozy little couch-y area, perfect for book clubs, or just reading by yourself. And, they had an awesome selection of books, the standard best sellers, good varietals in all sorts of book categories and our favorite - a great quirky section called the wierd room, where we also found one of our new games - Munchkin! Also worth noting because of my love for young adult books (you'd think I'd grow out of those), they have a downstairs room dedicated to kid's books and a little room for young adult/teen books. (I found all of the books Jessie and I talked about this summer and some more that she would like!!) So after perusing the store, we checked out with some books from the wierd room - I got another Neil Gaiman book. But of course with us, we don't just check out. We started talking to the 2 guys at the checkout and Brian was talking to the one about Munchkin and games. I was talking to the other about Neil Gaiman. I didn't realize it, but I picked out his staff recommendation book! Unfortunately, we had to skedaddle so we couldn't talk long, because we would have missed our movie. But, we're going to be regulars there. And we're taking all of our future visitors there.
Thanks again dad for coming to visit!!
4 comments:
But... but... you left out the most important part!
What book did you get?
We're enjoying keeping up with your adventures -- great blog! Hope you're having a good week!
Hello! I'm glad everyone's liking our blog. We're trying to do some new things here and there, so we have something to tell people about. :)
Brian's book is Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald, the diary of an officer assigned to stand guard in an underground bunker with electronic controls designed to wage nuclear war. (That's the shortened book jacket version.)
My book is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (he lives in WI) about an ordinary dude that finds himself in an "underground" of sorts in London.
Actually, what makes the book cool is that it was written during the cold war, and the escalation of the arms race, so there was a political motivation to getting it - how cool!!!! (and, keeping my roots, it's published by the Univ. of WI press!!!!)
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