Bigger

After moving from my hometown to Tulsa to Kansas City, the rule of the game for bookstores seemed to be BIGGER. In the former we had B&N nearby and a short-lived store called Media Play that sold books, music, and movies. It probably lasted four or five years and I mostly bought things other than books there. The B&N is still there across the street from Woodland Hills Mall, which had its own bookstore or two back in the day. B. Dalton or Borders or Waldenbooks, maybe? Once we moved to KC, I went through a period of getting more books from the library than buying them. For those years as well as until recently in Texas, our bookstore of choice has mostly been Amazon. The KC libraries were really good and allowed me to sample a lot of books I probably wouldn’t have tried otherwise. The Zona Rosa shopping area in the far north of Kansas City hosted a B&N, which I’d check out on occasion but really didn’t buy much there. More like window shopping. During that time I donated a lot of books, trying to trim down the number of boxes we had to deal with every time we moved. Many hardcovers and trade paperbacks made their way into the donation bins, which was probably a good thing. I kept favorites and others that had meaning and still have them.