New Year’s Day Notes

Is there a better way to start out the New Year than by starting a great new book? I think not. Thankfully, if you didn’t already know this fact, River City Books will be open for business on January first — from noon to 6 p.m.
On a related note, the River City Books fiction book [...]

How To Use That Gift Card

This time of year people are often walking into the neighborhood bookstore with plastic to burn. No, I don’t mean VISA or MasterCard. I am talking about the best present I ever received: a gift card from River City Books.
If you happen to be fulfilling the dream of every reader — to stroll into a [...]

Take Twenty Percent Off, Please

I always feel a letdown after the holidays. All that excitement — all that food — and then, bam, it’s back to regular life and the realization that if I ate that way all of the time I would be so fat my wings couldn’t keep me up. One thing that helps, though, is the [...]

Christmas Festival CDs Sold Here

It amazes me how quickly they can turn a recording into a CD available at retail outlets near you. (Frame of reference: I am also amazed at drive-through windows at pharmacies.) Already, for example, you can buy copies of the 2007 St. Olaf Christmas Festival — the world renowned St. Olaf Christmas Festival — and [...]

The Last Minute Solution

Say you forgot about someone. It could happen. It has happened. A lot of people — OK, me — forget to buy a gift for a certain someone and then are left scrambling at the last minute. Or maybe you didn’t forget but after scouring the ends of the earth you just can’t find a [...]

Extended Holiday Hours at RCB

I happened to look at my calendar this morning and it hit me like telephone pole that was mistakenly in my airspace: It’s time to start shopping!
Only a few days left till judgment day. Geeesh, I better get a move on. Fortunately for me — and you, too — the neighborhood bookstore is open later [...]

A Post About Nothing

The Soup Nazi. Kramerica Industries. High talkers. Low talkers. Yada, yada, yada. It’s a well-known secret in our nest that I am a “Seinfeld” fan. If you ask me, the show gets better with each viewing. Which is why I am tickled to report that down at River City Books they have the ultimate gift [...]

Follow-Up Also Makes A Great Gift

As a mediocre student, I didn’t get everything I could have out of my education. It wasn’t that I wasn’t smart. It’s just that I wasn’t especially bright. So I missed a few things (as they sailed past me, above me, up and over me). In the years since I have tried to make up [...]

‘Run’ — Don’t Walk — To Buy These Books

I apologize that I haven’t written in a few days. I know this has troubled many of you and I am sorry. I caught a bug and was on my back for a couple of days. The only good part of being sick is that there’s plenty of time for reading and, friends, I happened [...]

Fritz Perry Will Present Book

If you’re like me, about now you’re ready to set the wish lists aside and take a break from the busiest month of the year. Even for just an hour. Maybe sit somewhere warm. Perhaps listen to a good story.
Sound nice?
Then, friends, grab the kids and keep a little time open in the weekend schedule. [...]