It's National Independent Bookstore Day

 April 26^th  National Independent Bookstore Day

The way Malaprops looked on my first visit in 2013.

Malaprops, 2013, Asheville, NC

Malaprops, March 2024

Malaprops 2024, friends finding their books!

Malaprops Bookstore 2025 with one of Asheville's buskers being welcome on the sidewalk in front of the store. (But the guitarist has broken the busker law by not affording 6 feet of walking space in front of him!)

Bookmark from the latest bookstore I visited, in Moab UT.

A few of the purchased bookmarks for friends.

Friends and I have taken day trips to Sylva, NC several times. The City Lights Bookstore is a favorite place to shop, and then we have lunch downstairs!

A good lunch from many hands was shared yesterday at the apartment complex, and I sat with a new person who had similar interests, and lives on the same courtyard as my balcony and downstairs neighbors. I do hope we continue to say hi when we see each other. I managed to bake chocolate chip nutty cookies, by mixing them in the evening, refrigerating the dough, then baking them before the lunch. Of course the dough was too hard to spoon any onto the cookie sheets, so I sliced it with a knife in order to make tiny little cookies. Admittedly I enjoyed the raw dough more than the finished products.

Today's quote:

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. 

-Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954)

Today is the birth anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted - see Open Yesterday's Pages here.