Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are as many different ways to go to a bookstore as there are to read a book. Some people like to browse, others to skim. Some go shopping with one book to buy, others leave any store with at least four books they hadn't known they wanted to read. With more than 25 bookstores in 10 blocks, Harvard Square has a bookstore for every type of shopper...
...Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) is the best for browsing. It has a wide selection of just-released hardcovers and new paperbacks. The strongest stock is in women's studies, black studies and sociology. And its used books--it has an entire floor downstairs--are a plus. It usually has some of the most frequently used textbooks for half-price or less, and a lot of good fiction for less than a dollar a book...
...Harvard Book Store is in a great location, right across the street from the Yard, and is open until 11 p.m. every day. And from 7 p.m. until closing, it's a great place to people-watch...
...best thing about Harvard Book Store is that everyone there loves books. Most of the customers seem to browse for hours, and the people who work there can answer almost any question--if they don't have something you are looking for, they will tell you where to go. Unfortunately, that happens sort...
...less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together by a common trait, an irresistible claim on attention, the written equivalent of a tug at the lapel or a hand on the shoulder. This book can be picked up and put down many times, but hardly ever in the middle of a story...