Posts Tagged: union station

Remember Bookstores?

November 1st, 2012
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Washington, DC’s historic Union Station

I read yesterday that another bookstore — Barnes & Noble in Union Station — is biting the dust and it’s just incredible to me that a bookstore, in the nation’s capitol, in a train station, where you can buy a wide variety of things to read, is closing.

I posted about this wonderful book store in December 2011 (Books @ Union Station December 8, 2011) and find it sad that it will soon be closed.  Do people not read books anymore?  I find that hard to believe.  Whenever I’m on Metro people are reading and … Read More

Books @ Union Station

December 9th, 2011
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I was downtown at Union Station the other day and was surprised to see that the Barnes & Noble store there is still open.  Now that Borders has closed and the Barnes & Noble store in Georgetown has been bought by Nike, I am always happy to see a book store open and bustling with customers. I find it’s such a indulgent luxury to browse in a book store.  To go from table to table and shelf to shelf, to look at the covers of the books, pick them up, read through them and just feel the weight of the… Read More