by MainStreetBooks | Dec 2, 2017 | Bookstore Lady
Historically, I’ve been something of a Grinch about Christmas. This is not to say that I actively try to deny people the holiday — no ornaments up my sleeves, no roast beast in my bag — but I have been known to, passive aggressively, make the holiday a...
by MainStreetBooks | Nov 7, 2016 | Bookstore Lady, Mansfield
It is with great sorrow that I must relay news of the death of one of the bookstore’s most loyal customers, Landree Rennpage. Landree, at age 31, was killed in a car collision Saturday night. The literary community in Mansfield is shocked at this news, and deeply...
by MainStreetBooks | Dec 17, 2015 | Bookstore Lady
When I was a girl, my mom and I would go to the local mall to shop for Christmas. Back then it was a full, bustling place, lights and baubles everywhere and Christmas carols echoing through the cavernous halls. After we finished buying for our lists we would walk to...
by MainStreetBooks | Nov 6, 2015 | Bookstore Lady, Mansfield
Thanks to the modern majesty that is Facebook, I was reminded yesterday that five years ago, I was laid off from my job at the PowerHouse Arena bookstore in Brooklyn. I had worked there for two months. The manager told me, in her clipped German accent, that because I...
by MainStreetBooks | Jul 17, 2015 | Book Review, Bookstore Lady
For actual reviews of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, Between the World and Me, please see the New York Times or Slate. Below are just some thoughts and reflections I’ve been mulling over in the weeks since I read the advanced reading copy that came to me at the...
