In literature, protagonists (and sometimes a few antagonists) often find themselves on The Hero’s Journey. Setting out on a quest, traveling to distant locations, meeting people and learning things, and then finding a reward or enlightenment at the end. Oh, and someone usually dies. Like a mentor. Usually has gray...
Inside Kindred Stories , one of 18 independent bookstores taking part in the 2024 Houston Bookstore Crawl. L to R: General Manager Chanecka Williams , Operations Lead Stevens Orozco and Founder Terri Hamm.In literature, protagonists often find themselves on The Hero’s Journey. Setting out on a quest, traveling to distant locations, meeting people and learning things, and then finding a reward or enlightenment at the end.the death) thanks to the Houston Bookstore Crawl 2024.
“Just seeing the expansiveness and all the niche bookstores is so cool. And I go to everybody’s store and send people there if we don’t have something,” Williams says. “The purpose of this Crawl is to promote community and conversations. People are looking for that. You can find things in these stores you haven’t been to before.”
“It’s one thing to find the big release, but one thing an algorithm can’t give you is a hidden gem, like the first book in a series you hadn’t heard of before. And we stare at our screens all day long. There’s something wonderful about just sitting down quietly and reading for a bit without getting notifications.”
To date, Crawl participants haven’t just come from just Houston and the surrounding areas. “We just had somebody leave fromMacDougall says that one out of town customer called and said while they wouldn’t be able to make it to Houston in April, they requested a PDF of the Crawl Bingo Card to use the next time they visited.
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