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From Open Salon - please like it there if you’re so inclined! I am trying to get back to actually writing. A mini attempt here.

I love books, and I love talking about books, but I’m often hard pressed to find people outside the internet as eager to chat about the latest romance and young adult novels as they are about the new Gary Shteyngarten or Haruki Murakami (no offense). Where I know I can always go and discuss the nuances of historical romance novelists Sarah MacLean and Eloisa James, or debate the fact that so much YA is full of death, or simply compare tattoos or thoughts on what’s new in book land, is WORD, at 126 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where the staff genuinely love books.  When they recommend something to me, I don’t feel like I’m getting the hard sell so they can make a buck, but rather a genuine, customized recommendation. “Sometimes I buy books online,” I whispered a little shamelessly while in the store last night. “When they’re cheaper,” I hastened to explain. Nobody gave me a hipster death stare.