Visited Barnes & Noble tonight

[mcar]

SO and I went to see "She Said" in the theater (excellent film). Then we stopped at Barnes & Noble to do some shopping for granddaughter.

A small table at the front of the store held recent political books - all by Trump humpers (like Peter Navarro). Y'know what else was on the table?

"Confidence Man" by Maggie Haberman. Guess B&N figures she belongs with all the other Trump lovers.

[Ocelot II]

1. They wouldn't have thought that if they'd actually read the book.

Say what you want about Haberman, but she does not treat him kindly in the book. At all.

[mcar]

2. Glad to hear it

I won't read it bc she should have reported some of these things in real time, rather than wait to make more money off it.

Now she's among the group whining about not be invited to attend Naomi Biden's weddding.

[MurrayDelph]

9. Reported in "real time"?

It's not like she was working for a newspaper while withholding this information...

Oh, wait...

[mcar]

10. Uh huh

[SheltieLover]

3. What a piss poor audience for authors. What % can & do read.

Guessing teeny.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Who is surprised by this?

[mcar]

6. Super Red county

I wondered if the B&N employees who set up the table just stuck it there bc TFG is on the cover or if it was a subtle nudge.

[Deminpenn]

8. BN displays what sells in their location

I know the nearest BN to me is in a red county and they carry more current events books by conservatives. The nearest one to my former home was in a blue county and they carried more current event books by and about liberals. B&Ns goal is sales, not politics.

[moniss]

5. The attention span

is gone. You have to have a healthy one in order to appreciate the constructive artistry of good writers of short stories and novels. Most people today want to grab things in a simple straight forward way in a sentence or two or maybe a couple of short paragraphs at most. The idea/experience of sitting down with a novel for hours at a time and letting it wrap you up and carry you away is not for them. Even if they did sit with a book the experience would now be constantly interrupted with their phone calls,e-mails, messaging and shopping alerts.

It's the same with the practice of conversation. Is it really any wonder that society has therefore moved along to where so many only pay attention to each other in short bursts? It is not healthy emotionally to live this way since so many people never take the time to process a feeling and use contemplation/reflection but rather they make snap decisions or deflect any decision/conclusion because they have been trained, most unwittingly, to quickly move on to the next thing or stimuli. It is so much a part of life now that if that next thing or stimuli isn't there every few minutes they go looking for it or feel something is lacking if it isn't there.

[kskiska]

7. I've noticed this even in Broadway shows.

There don't seem to be many more dramas presented - just musicals. There used to be so many great straight plays, some later turned into movies, like "Come Back, Little Sheba," "The Subject Was Roses," "Death of a Salesman," "Raisin in the Sun"…