6/10/2023 0 Comments Bookends ct![]() Human interest articles were next, eventually followed by real news. I loved the Sunday newspaper, naturally beginning with the funnies – Mutt & Jeff, the Katzenjammer Kids, and oh, be still my heart, Prince Valiant. As a kid, I read everything that came my way. ![]() I needed to read.Įvery writer I know has always been a voracious reader. I turned the pages with the eraser end of a pencil. Only my nose and eyes hung over the pillow, facing down. I used my method for the next five years: I put the book on the floor under the head of my cot, and scooched to the top of the bed on my stomach. After a couple weeks of that torture, I figured out a way to read. We were supposed to close our eyes for the first half hour. A counselor sat in a chair monitoring our behavior. The six years I went away to summer camp, we had mandatory daily nap time – an hour after lunch. Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting on the floor while I read. After I put my mittens on the radiator, and tucked my boots underneath, I sat beside the warmish coils with a book. Many days after school it was easier to get into a book than into their baseball game.Įvery winter, our apartment was cold thanks to our heat-miser landlord. The rotten boys in my neighborhood were not my enemies, but we weren’t buddies either, because I was the only girl. I was in Never Never Land.īooks became my closest friends. After a few months with my library card, she had to break through my fantasizing before she could talk to me. Barrett has also been an outspoken critic of Amazon’s harm to bookstores and brick-and-mortar retail stores in general.My daydreaming habit already bugged Mom. The store has appeared on the Thrillist list of 10 Woman-Owned Bookstores Across the U.S. and on the Mental Floss list of 16 Must-Visit Indie Bookstores Owned by Writers. (Gina Grillo / Chicago Tribune)Ī graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, Barrett is also a writer and author of books that include I Wish Someone Had Told Me, The Playgroup: Three Women Contend With the Myths of Motherhood, The Girls: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship, and most recently, The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes.Īccording to the store’s website, Bookends & Beginnings has earned national recognition for bringing a quirky brand of literary charm to the heart of Evanston. Maya Abraham, age 10, of Evanston, settles in with a good book during the Bookends & Beginnings ribbon-cutting and grand opening event in their new location at 1620 Orrington Avenue in Evanston on Saturday. ![]() history, social science, psychology, LGBTQ+, and more, with nonfiction offerings highlighted by a robust cookbook section. Instead of being bombarded by the Barnes & Noble style of limitless access to every book ever written, Barrett describes her store’s selection as curated and intimate with genres ranging from general fiction, science fiction, mystery, romance. ![]() “If Bookends & Beginnings was a person, she’d be like Annie Hall,” Barrett said, “quirky and mismatched but somehow always beautiful.” Lynn Robinson Phillips, President, Robinson Rental and owner of the Hahn Building in Evanston in which Bookends & Beginnings is located, City of Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, Nina Barrett, owner and founder of Bookends & Beginnings and First Ward, council member Clare Kelly, take part in the ribbon-cutting. Bookends & Beginnings started a new chapter on Saturday, with a ribbon-cutting and grand opening event in their new location at 1620 Orrington Avenue in Evanston.
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