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Oct. 31st, 2016
40. Visit Prospero’s Books in Manassas
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6of8 and I ventured over to Manassas to visit this bookstore. I'd heard about it from at least 4 different people, and it seemed like a fun thing to do with a wonderful book-loving friend. We also did some petting of my cats at my house, some snarfing in Manassas, some snarfing around my town, and some visiting of a nearby Little Free Library I'd always meant to go to but just hadn't. In all, it was a great day!
The bookstore was such fun to explore. They have some very specific book classifications going on. There was a row just of biographies that was separate from the row of memoirs/autobiographies. There was a special shelf dedicated to the Founding Fathers (squee!), a whole room just for Civil War books, and another room just for books on the world wars. There were some rooms that we couldn't figure out the purpose of/theme of. There were some nooks/twists/turns that came out of absolutely nowhere. And there were cool antiques in display cases (along with books) and on top of bookcases. It was definitely a fun little store to explore.
I ended up coming home with three books: a $0.25 cookbook based on nothing but oranges by Bridget Jones, a kid's book about the Revolutionary War written in the '60s and filled with almost nothing but paintings and illustrations (some by artists I recognized; also featured an awesome one of Alexander Hamilton on the battlefield I'd never seen before), and a book telling mystery-related events that happened on every day of the year (Alfred Hitchcock born, Agatha Christie publishes first book, etc).
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Today,
6of8 and I ventured over to Manassas to visit this bookstore. I'd heard about it from at least 4 different people, and it seemed like a fun thing to do with a wonderful book-loving friend. We also did some petting of my cats at my house, some snarfing in Manassas, some snarfing around my town, and some visiting of a nearby Little Free Library I'd always meant to go to but just hadn't. In all, it was a great day! The bookstore was such fun to explore. They have some very specific book classifications going on. There was a row just of biographies that was separate from the row of memoirs/autobiographies. There was a special shelf dedicated to the Founding Fathers (squee!), a whole room just for Civil War books, and another room just for books on the world wars. There were some rooms that we couldn't figure out the purpose of/theme of. There were some nooks/twists/turns that came out of absolutely nowhere. And there were cool antiques in display cases (along with books) and on top of bookcases. It was definitely a fun little store to explore.
I ended up coming home with three books: a $0.25 cookbook based on nothing but oranges by Bridget Jones, a kid's book about the Revolutionary War written in the '60s and filled with almost nothing but paintings and illustrations (some by artists I recognized; also featured an awesome one of Alexander Hamilton on the battlefield I'd never seen before), and a book telling mystery-related events that happened on every day of the year (Alfred Hitchcock born, Agatha Christie publishes first book, etc).
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