Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller store that is a Fortune 1000 company and a bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of October 2023, the company operates 592 retail stores across all 50 U.S. states. 
In the middle of December, the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) came out on CNBC in the news and informed us that his company is now fully in operation. As before, because of Amazon Com, Inc. which started selling books on the Internet
at discounted prices, and even the delivery system that makes the Barnes Noble Bookseller Co., went bankrupt.
Besides that cause makes the customers stop visiting bookstores to buy books.

Some other activist investment companies took over the bankrupted company and invested in online bookstores like Amazon system and expended on toys, games, and other gifts. Meantime, especially young people are starting to visit bookstores to buy books that have changed the company's future. It is a good thing to hear about younger generations who are only interested in online shopping and the internet. Besides the first time, eBooks were introduced they getting very popular.
Because e-readers have to only download the eBooks from eBook companies.

One day reporter from a newspaper company asked Umberto Eco is Italian novelist writer who is a brilliant, experimental funny, literary, and philosophical writer according to the New York Times. "How did you think about eBook?"
He told him if someone dropped an eBook it would break, yet the paper book would not have any damage at all."

Before X-Mass, I went to the Indigo bookstore where I live to buy the book which was "Beloved" written by author Toni Morrison.
When I arrived there, I was so surprised that I could not believe it. Before when I passed by it was not that busy.
4 cashiers were working very hard trying to accommodate the business, still, customers waiting in line to pay for their buying books and I was one of them. A few more workers helped customers who wanted to locate where they could find the book they wanted to buy I was one of them and the workers were very friendly helping us to find the book with their cell phone.

To talk about the book Beloved written by Toni Morrison who was an American Novelist, editor, and educator who wrote mostly about black Americans especially Black women's experience in an unjust society. Above all, she was the first Black American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. She wrote quite a lot of Novels, yet I read only Beloved and Song of Solomon.
Sadly, she passed away on the year of 2019.

Beloved is a 1987 wrote, set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit the life of a black woman named Sethe who was born a slave and escaped Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, a beautiful farm
where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word, Beloved.

Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by her and it follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead 3rd, an African-American man living in Michigan from birth to adulthood. Song of Solomon explores the quest for Cultural Identity. Based on the African-American folktale about enslaved Africans who escaped slavery by flying back to African Pilate Dead (daughter) Milkman Dead (son) Ruth Faster Dead(wife), their last name is "Dead". Pilate Dead was once dear to her brother 'Macon', but she no longer remains so.
Macon Dead, the father was killed while defending his land, and his two children, Macon jr. and Pilate were scarred by witnessing the murder and became estranged from each other. Eventually, Pilate has become a poor but strong and independent woman Macon Jr., like his grandfather acquiring wealth.

The Song of Solomon describes in the Bible both marriage and God's relationship with his people.

As we grow old, we have to read more books than when we were young, now we have more free time to do and it will be good for our mental health. Sometimes I wonder where the seniors could buy the books that they like to read.

the first week of January 2024,

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