Welcome to west Houston's friendly neighborhood bookshop!Check the events tab to see what's coming up and the discussions tab to see what we're reading! I'm called the girlboss. My father, Vener Barnes, gave me the moniker back when I was new to the book business and marketing one of my first author events for a book titled GIRLBOSS. He can still call me a girl but I don't think many others will (although the staff knows I'll stop reading if they say it).  The guy in the picture let me invest our money in a neighborhood bookshop back in 1996.  He had no idea what we were getting into but after 15 years, I think we've done pretty well.  It's a full full full time job and I love it.  Well, maybe not the toilet, printer, and computer problems.  I grew up in Houston. I love books. Always have.  I know my grandmother is looking over me now.  Apparently when I was two, my invalid grandfather was very upset that the whole family was outside and the baby (me) was inside. The story goes that she soothed him by relating that I was comfortably ensconced in the easy chair, reading a book (upside down!).  My week goes like this -- read, go to BWB and work, visit my parents, worry about my two sons (Will in Utah, Steve in Oklahoma), feed the dog, see my siblings on Sunday, walk, work out, repeat. How boring and glorious at the same time.

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