Bookstore

When given the choice between a library and a bookstore, no matter how little money I have, I will inevitably choose the bookstore. There is something about the combined smells of coffee and new books that makes my head happy. Libraries are fine but they are lacking the smells and comfort of the bookstore. Libraries for example tend to make you feel like you need to be quiet and leave as soon as you have chosen a book, but a bookstore provides you with music, cream frappucinos, and comfortable places to sit, read and observe. There definitely are many things to observe in bookstores; in the coffee shop for example you can watch the slightly punkified teenagers perform what they think to be the most rebellious job available in Utah. The sheer thought of selling coffee is enough to make many Utah mothers cringe. In order to fit the rebellious coffee shop worker stereotype they feel that they must have their hair in many lengths and even more colors all on the same head. As fun as they are to observe it is also interesting to see which people look at which books. Who are the chefs, historians, and Elvis lovers of the world and which people are reading the comic books or the oh so intense romance novels and are they really reading or are the trying to find out who you are by what you are reading? In the movie "You've Got Mail" Tom Hanks explains how the owners lure people in with cheap books and overpriced but perfectly aromatic cappuccinos, and it most definitely has worked on me. I hate to think of myself as a mindless consumer but I break the number one book reading rule "Don't judge a book by its cover." That has always been my ideal way of choosing books I want to read: if the cover looks interesting the book probably will be too. And it has hardly ever failed me. There have been a few times where I have ventured to read books with covers that absolutely bored me, and for the most part the book followed suit. If the author did not care enough to make a nice cover he probably did not write it very well either. I seem to have veered slightly from my original topic so in conclusion: This was an analytical blog written on why I personally prefer bookstores to libraries, I apologize to any librarians I may have wounded emotionally in the process of writing this, It was merely a childish but fact based analysis on my own opinion of libraries and it did not reflect any bad thoughts towards librarians specifically. Thanks for reading and please continue to do so.
The Turquoise Tiger