Second Looks Books

05/26/2020

... with a full scholarship to his #1 choice. Thanks, librarians. ❤️

For five years, Columbus City Schools student Lashawn Samuel walked three miles round trip from his home to the Franklinton Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library to get help with his homework…

03/04/2020

Plucky heroines abound across Anglo and American children’s literature, yet their own struggles with gendered strictures and the trajectories of their comings-of-age often present conflicting narra…

01/25/2020

Still helping people explain to their housemates why they NEED more books. :-)

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.

11/11/2019

sitting in the kids section, enjoying a cold frosty

11/04/2019

Please let us know if you want bookcases. They are disconnected from their miraculous tinker toy formation and horizontal now! $75 apiece, but if you buy 2+, $50 each.

10/31/2019

The postman delivered 30 copies yesterday afternoon.

(Comment here if you'd like one set aside.)

10/31/2019

Legolas's last day! After 28 years of pitched battle, a bookstore dies today! Raise your bookmarks high, everyone. Long live Second Looks Books!

Valerie Wilson Posner

10/29/2019

If you or a loved are hopelessly addicted to great mysteries, suspense, or thrillers—get down to store, because we're selling paper grocery bags of the stuff for $10 a pop!

10/29/2019

20-20-24 hours to go-o-o . . .

10/28/2019

Four days—32 hours—before the bookstore turns into the proverbial pumpkin. 🎃😯

10/21/2019

Read the subtitle, folks--right thar at the very bottom. Yep, we've still got the goods! 10 more days to stock up on your winter reading! (50% everything; or $10 for a paper grocery bag)