The Temptress at Barnes & Noble

Thank you all so much for the positive feedback. I have of late become an avid writer and it is lovely to see it being accepted this way.

As for the ongoing mini discussion about the newer bookstores vs old bookstores, to each their own. The lack of old bookstores in my area leads me to Barnes & Noble and the feeling of comming home i talked about it just exaclty that. I get into the store and find peace within the books, the music and the good food. I had just wanted to share some of that feeling, especially on Chowk, since most here love reading as much as I do. For those who have yet to find a place such as MY Barnes & Noble, hope you can soon :)

also, as an aside, my author intro mentions me as a student AT UPenn..( moving on from Rutgers University) it is more accurate to say that i intend to start there as a junior in the fall :) * like in three days *

Thanks again.

Zehra.

you might want to try used book stores if you want to listen to books talk to you. barnes and noble is too sterile... too... errr... MacDonalds-esque... to be able to hold meaningful conversations with books in there.

a used book store has that amazing smell... the smell of old books... it smells of knowledge and of stories told around a fire, rather than the smell of the lastest shiny news show on tv or the current popular sitcom.

sigh... barnes and noble is killing so many bookstores with real character everywhere... it is the epitomy of writing in a journal with a pencil. i want a fountain pen... and i don`t want to use whiteout with it either. i want to talk as myself, with the mis-steps, the stumbles, and the scratched out words and mis-spellings that is the real me. to erase is to cheat.

--ababua

Zehra,

It was the journal`s loss ... that it missed out on your truly enchanting words.

By the way... the best writers use pencils.. :)

ArtZ

Well written, Zehra.

Apart from wit, charm and political ambitions there is one more ingenious way of storming your way into Washington:

Internship.

Zehra,

The reason you came back empty-handed from Barnes and Noble is simple - they hardly have anything worth buying, let alone worth reading!

Anita