From the monthly archives:
I’ve become sort of obsessed with Granada Court, the condos currently under construction at the north end of Vroman’s block. Actually, “condominium” sounds rather bland and antiseptic when I look at this nearly-completed development. I walk by the construction site a couple of times a day, and it has been fascinating watching the building grow [...]
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A few days ago I spotted Sherri Gallentine, our book buyer, holding a book I just love: The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury. I read this book years ago and thought it was wonderful, so it made me happy to know Sherri was about to embark on a great read; what made me even [...]
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I have just spent the most entertaining half hour or so perusing the Craftster.org website. If you are at all interested in “alternative crafting,” you owe yourself a visit to this terrific online community. It’s a “forum for people who love to make things but who are not inspired by cross-stitched home sweet home plaques [...]
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“Why don’t you write books people can read?”- Nora Joyce, to her husband James “After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
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Any of you remember The Suburban Homestead? It was Vroman’s late (and I hope lamented) email newsletter devoted to cooking, gardening, home improvement, “lifestyle,” etc. It ceased publication last fall, and since then I’ve been looking for an outlet to review books of that nature. The blog seems like a good spot to highlight them, [...]
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Saturday’s pirate extravaganza proved to be a rousing success. First there was a special pirate storytime with Cap’n Steve. Cap’n Steve couldn’t find quite enough pirate tales to fill all of storytime, so he padded his repertoire with a selection of stories about, as he put it, “water or anti-social behavior.” Kids were treated to [...]
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Summer has barely begun, and I’ve already discovered and read my fun summer thriller: The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont. This well-written and stunningly researched homage to the pulp era is for anyone casting about for something in the vein of Carter Beats the Devil or The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. [...]
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Funny how you learn the most interesting things about your co-workers the longer you work together. For instance, I never knew how many pirate fanatics are employed by Vroman’s until I started setting up a big display in anticipation of Disney’s most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Suddenly, everywhere I turned, I was confronted [...]
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Vroman’s WiFi is up and running! You can pick it up throughout the store, but our primary hotspot is upstairs in our events space. You’ll currently find plenty of chairs and a few benches in this area — in the coming months, we’re planning to add some cozier seating and tables to create more of [...]
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