Wonder Book Blog
This story was written in 2007 about a year after the following story happened. I wish there were more photos but phones and phone pictures were not what they are today. We do have analog photos...somewhere... They'll turn up. I had recently finished a 350-page... Read More
"Are you charging us to take these?" That was an unusual question. One that I don't recall ever hearing before. And it was October 2017. Not that I haven't been tempted to tell someone with dreadful books, "You'd have to pay me to take these... Read More
I've made thousands of house calls over the years. Some have been memorably good. Some unforgettably bad. But there's almost always something good—even in the worst. The ones where I've gone away empty handed were often learning experiences. Those where the books turned out to... Read More
"I know where those came from!" We get thousands of anonymous boxes of books in the Wonder Book warehouse each week. Each of the three stores can do thirty or more "buys" each day. A "buy" can be a handful of books or a pickup... Read More
When I was a very young kid, my parents had a subscription to Life magazine. It would come in the snail mail once a week. Thursday, if memory serves. When I got home from school on that afternoon, I'd rush to the mail slot at... Read More
All good fairy tales begin with "Once upon a time..." Once upon a time, I was a very young bookseller. I busied myself about my fledgling shop stocking shelves and building bookcases from #2 Pine 1x8s and often wondered if the store would last another... Read More
