Gardner's Used Books & Comics

I fly a lot for work. I buy a stack of books, read them, then take the back and trade them in for another stack of books. Makes flying more tolerable for sure. If you can’t find something to read here, well, you have bigger problems.

This is one of my favourite places. I never read books, I devour them and at an alarming rate. It can become a rather pricey habit and Gardener’s is like a holy place to me. It even smells like old books when you walk in the door. It’s quiet and very easy to lose yourself in. Now with the addition of the mexican resaurant and the coffee shop it’s even better than when I first started going there over 10 years ago. In high school I even got the opportunity to meet one of my favourite authors, Mercedes Lackey. She signed my copy of Jinx High and laughed when I told her I attended Union. (Jinx High is actually a play on Jenks High and is set in the Jenks/Tulsa area). Several years ago I even lucked into a long out of print book that I had been longing, I got it for about $3 and even though it was finally reprinted a couple of years ago it is a treasured posession of mine.