but i had to move to sarasota and two thousand and nine early two thousand and nine and at that time there was a wonderful bookstore on the corner here downtown sarasota and about a year later that  bookstore closed everybody missed it tremendously and so did i so i thought well i wish somebody would open a bookstore so i could go to a wonderful bookstore well your past of nobody did so i said i'll just do it myself oh it's been great fun i can't imagine many other businesses that would be more fun than this one well of course i love books i've always loved books but that's just a bit of it i mean i can always get books but meeting authors i really love authors you know prose writers i love poets the customers who come in to this store to probably to most independent bookstores but particularly in this community in sarasota the customers are terrific they are wonderful people when people walk through the store the stores door they're smiling and they're happy to be here because they're coming to look for something they really want and really enjoy sell it back to this experience community still an independent bookstore it's like saying you're going to close down your library has it made you know it doesn't make sense in the long term you need that having an independent bookstore or is one of the things that make s a really livable fantastic city i've spent my whole life in america half of the big in bookstores in allies have francisco and new york and the most of those gone most of the independent bookstores have gone so number one that was my first thought is i believe this is important to the community in which i live and i know that book stores all the good bookstores i've known in my life provide something that can't be provided online a lot of things that can't be provided on line we are really lucky to have one here in sarasota we come and look around not just come in for a specific purpose but you get ideas here you can just look at everything else look at just be stimulated by what's around you i'm really really lucky it's here to be supported we'll have customers who come in here literally this will happen about once a day somebody will come in and say you know i saw this book written up in the newspaper and it had a blue cover and i think it had a flower on the back and maybe it was written by a woman and interestingly enough nine chances out of ten somebody on our staff will say oh yeah i know what you mean try asking that of an online service it's a completely different experience to be i mean online yet we need it it's great it's an enhancement but it's not a substitute for really be in a bookstore with other people getting ideas with by pretty much everything they expect of a bookstore i mean we have good sections in general fiction and biography in history we have mystery we have romance we have a wonderful classics section we have a wonderful poetry section and a great kids section and our manager has done a great job with the kids section in that she has done something that other bookstores don't do other bookstores for work i tell my kids they'll just plop books on the shelves and call it why a young adult our manager has broken it down by age ranges so if you walk into this bookstore you'll see a shelf of books for kids from let's say ages six to eight and then you know nine to twelve and then you know twelve and above and fourteen about so if you're if you're a grandparent and you're wondering oh what book is appropriate for my granddaughter my grandson who happens to be nine and a half years old that's a good clue he would walk right to that shelf and at least get some direction and i have never seen another bookstore do that and i think that's been very very helpful we sell books obviously magazines newspapers cards gift wrap gifts but we're mainly books so you know we love to see people come in and just browse our selection and come on and then meet us and this morning you walked in and you said something about the smell of the books are you be surprised at how many people say that they walk in and they just breathe