Book store blogs are expected to be promotional as well as informational. We have bills to pay, after all. My thoughts here, however, will persuade you, I hope, not to buy a book. I also hope that they will give you an idea of how I stock history and biography here at Whistlestop Bookshop.
Read MoreReading Peter Baker's Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House has prompted some thoughts on reading books that bridge journalism and history. I confess that I rarely read such ambitious "contemporary history" books. I figure I lived through it, so why re-hash what I remember well enough anyway? I read the Wall Street Journal every day; I read dozens of magazines from Foreign Affairs to Science News; I skim many more, from the New Yorker and the Nation to Esquire and Vanity Fair. There are advantages to owning a book store, yes. When you think you keep up, then, and when there is so much to read in so many other fields, why read what you already know?
Read MoreOn May 10th I posted a friendly alert about excellent new children's books on Whistlestop Bookshop's Facebook page. I see this place as a measure more permanent than the passing flash of a Facebook post, so here I add a few more titles received since then and some thoughts on why I think a good children's book is important.
Read MoreWhistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle PA. Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey. Our mission is to get the right books in the right hands at the right time.
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