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It's almost time for that stupid holiday again - Valentine's Day. In the past, I have always thought it was silly that a specific day was designated to show someone that you love them. Love is mushy - I think all the best books are the ones where people get their hearts stomped on, not where they happily ride off into the sunset.
This year, well, all I can say is "le sigh." Yep, how the mighty have fallen. HOWEVER, even with my new conversion to the Cult of Cupid, I am still going to come to RiverRun on Valentine's Day, to learn about really smart people who did poorly in the romance department. Our good friend Andrew Shaffer will be here to talk about his new book, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love.
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Hello Folks,
Another year is almost over, and I guess the highlight of 2010 for RiverRun is that we are still here, and you still keep coming through our door. Thank You!!
It's a scary, scary time in the bookselling world. We've seen a kind of "perfect storm" of recession, competition, technological innovation, and industry shakiness. 2010 will probably go down as the year that electronic boks finally broke through into the mainstream in a big, big way. While Amazon's Kindle has been making steady headway over the last few years, the introduction of the iPad this year really signaled a tipping point.
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Ready for one of the most obvious statements of the century? Here it is: I love books. LOVE books. And not the candy, flowers, and i's-dotted-with-hearts kind of love. I'm talking the obsessive, unreasonable, warrants-a-restraining-order kind. I have hundreds and hundreds of books in my apartment. Books stacked from floor-to-ceiling. Bookcases with shelves buckling under the weight. Books piled on the kitchen table, on the counters, on my desk, on my nightstand. Books shoved under the bed, in closets, in drawers. Thank goodness I still have enough wits about me to know I need to go to work so I can afford to buy food and pay the rent. Otherwise, I would never leave the house - I would be in here day and night with all my books (my precioussssses!), wearing the same pajamas for weeks and ignoring the phone and the landlord's knocks at the door.
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In case you haven't heard me say it a million times already, I have the *best* job in the world. And one of the perks of this job is receiving advance reading copies. It's when publishers and authors send us copies of their books before they're released, in the hopes we will read them and get excited, and, in turn, get you excited to read them. And no other non-fiction book has gotten me so wound up in the last five years as John Vaillant's The Tiger. It is a phenomenal book! I read it back in March and then had to wait *five* whole months before I could start selling it. But that didn't stop me from talking about it to everyone in a ten-mile radius. I talked about it so much that it was driving my coworkers crazy. "Please" said Tom, "please tell people about other books, too. Books we can actually sell right now." I conceded - a little. And in August, when The Tiger was released, my enthusiasm was validated!read more
About RiverRun
We are your friendly neighborhood bookstore, located in downtown Portsmouth, NH. Small but potent, we offer a fine selection of new books with an emphasis on fiction, history, poetry and mystery. We also have a great little kids section, and hold over 100 events a year.
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