What: Buyin' boox

Must-Do? Says Who? First Must-Do list; and, we must shamefully admit, a bit of bibliophilia

Casualties: $21 and change for the new Harry Potter; Brian is a hater and can bite me

Harry Potter Spoiler: The whole thing's actually a prequel to the Star Wars franchise. Whooda thunk?

Haslam's is a bookstore. It looks like a warehouse on the outside, but the inside is full of books. I bought one book. It was called the seventh Harry Potter book. I think it is quite popular. I like Harry Potter, I think he is a good role model for kids like me. The nice man inside said it was the best price, even better than Wal Mart. So I bought it.

Brian looked at lots of nice books too but he didn't buy any. One of the books that Brian looked at was about mosaics in a place called Pompeii. There were lots and lots of books on the ancient world, which is very unique because it happened so long ago. Brian spent most of his time looking at books about sex in ancient Rome. It had lots of pictures. Some of the pictures were dirty.

They also had many books on religion. I didn't read them though because the words were big, like 'ecumenical.'

Also the other kids were angry and rude because I got the last Harry Potter book. They whined and said rude things like "you're too big for that book" which is not a very nice thing to say.

Haslam's is great!

This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2007.