What sets local bookshops apart from the rest? The answer is different for everyone, but here are the elements I find keep me coming back to local bookshops time and again.
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Reading a book can be a magical experience. They can take you across the world, through time, even into the eyes of another creature. A collection of books seems to whisper of adventures and begs to be housed somewhere equally as promising. In honor of Independent Bookstore Day, I am sharing a short collection of Georgia bookstores that are worth the visit.
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In my very first Econ class in undergrad, the professor asked us what economics was about. “Money,” we answered. We were wrong. “Everyone thinks economics is about money,” he said, “but it’s not. Economics is about choices. Choices are what drive economies, not prices.”
That lesson marked the foundation of my economics major. And he was right. The price is often the last piece in the puzzle, not the first.
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Politics has become so theatrical, it seems we’ve all forgotten it is intended to be functional. It has been said before that there is no Republican or Democratic way to take out the trash, but I think we could all stand to hear it again. Partisanship has served as yet another tool to divide the American public against one another. Like most other tools in that box (gender, race, and religion, to name a few), it is a superficial contrast to the substance of the human struggle. Yet it has served powerfully in its purpose of preventing people from realizing their shared needs and collective power.
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