still in sunny california.
every sign has a spainish translation under it.
but the barns and noble i'm sitting at only has one shelf devoted to "libros en espanol"
do the spainish speaking people go elsewhere for their books?
i'm actually suprised i found this place. there aren't a lot of bookstores around here. then again, i'm used to cambridge, working in harvard square and everything. i've never had a shortage. maybe i'm apalled at the lack of bookstores because i'm an english major (and comm, of course!)
nobody else around me seems to notice they are in a bookstore. i got a comic book guy in front of me, an old lady reading ustoday on my right, some teenybopper girl killing time with fashion magazines, another old woman reading this trashy victorian number, a dude texting, and two alleged smarties with a logical reasoning book and a million wiki tabs open, respectively.
maybe it's because i'm in the vast expanse of desert and industrial parks that is redlands, CA (apparently it's a city, i refuse to believe!) Maybe everyone has a kindle or buys books online. but i think the book buying culture in america is going way down, which also means less options for cultural and spainish publications.
am i wrong? is everyone a bookworm, but only in secret?
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Barnes & Noble by definition kind of pummels local book culture.... I bet you can find some really good bookstores there with a little digging. But the "big box" stores kind of appear semi-regularly--it's nowhere as hard to find the B&N in Hyannis' Cape Cod Mall as it is to find Titicutt's Bookstore on 6A in Sandwich, if you see what I mean...
ReplyDeleteI absolutely think that folks are buying Spanish-language books (magazines, newspapers, you name it) off that beaten path. I remember being in Spain and being blown away by the range of Lithuanian titles available in the small town my in-laws lived in--there were regular deliveries there, and a hungry client base. So search them out--they're there, no doubt!