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Bookstore moving update.

December 28, 2011 /

I’ve been fielding calls from folks wondering about the bookstore. If you have questions after reading the article, check at the end for a phone number.

Here’s an update.

McHuston Booksellers is on hiatus, still awaiting completion of the new location at 122 S. Main Street in downtown Broken Arrow. The building sits on the west side of the street between Commercial and Broadway and currently has a storefront awning that says: Francy Law Firm.

The law offices have been removed along with the old wiring and what-not, replaced by new cabling, columns and beams, and light fixtures. The sheetrock starting going up right before Christmas Day.

As with all projects of a similar scope, the completion date is a little bit of a guessing game. In all likelihood, it will come sometime in February. The books and fixtures from the old location are currently in storage, ready to be brought back out when the time comes. Trade accounts are preserved, and will be ready as soon as the store is.

In the meantime, we’ve spent some time nosing around bookstores in Arkansas and Oklahoma, gathering ideas for the grand restart. We’re truly excited about being a part of the emerging Broken Arrow downtown project and hope our customers will be patient while we get things resituated. New customers will – I hope – be pleased at the new addition to the collection of businesses in the pioneer district of downtown Broken Arrow. Our new location will be in a building that was constructed before Oklahoma statehood, but will be as modern as wi-fi and the latest bestsellers.

Look for us soon, at 122 S. Main in Broken Arrow. More questions? Call McHuston: area code 918, then 361 and 7860. (Have to break those up because of computer robo-indexing. The old days were so much easier…)

Thanks for your patience. I hope the new setting will be as surprising for you as it is exciting for us!

McHuston

Some change is the same.

April 2, 2011 /

I’m getting to know my youngest grandbaby. I’m memorizing her name and… well, – to be honest – not a lot more. She won’t be born until Friday.

Stork delivery

Things just aren’t the same as they were years ago.

Back then, you couldn’t paint the crib unless you were a gambler with those 50/50 odds of blue or pink.

Names?

You could whittle your list down to two favorites, but there couldn’t be a final decision until, you know – the event. Now, the baby’s identity is already well-known before she is born. If the doctor would just tell us her preference, we could order up and enjoy a piece of her favorite cake, right on her birthday.

Technology has changed some things for us. On the other hand, there are some staples that remain.

My step-son had a hurting tummy on Friday and couldn’t get out of his bed for school. I learned later that a miraculous recovery was affected about three in the afternoon. In fact, his road to recovery was paved with such incredible vim, he was still energetically gaming at his internet-connected ‘Nuke’em to the Stone Age’ at 3am.

In my time, that was diagnosed as ‘school-itus.’

Some things remain the same.

End of the Cave Bear

March 30, 2011 /

Hard to believe, but it was more than three decades ago that the world learned about the Clan of the Cave Bears, the prehistoric group created by novelist Jean Auel.

painted caves

In stock: Painted Caves.

The continuing series has had its doubters as to conclusion. It may seem like decades have passed for readers of Shelters of Stone, who have been patiently – or impatiently – waiting for the next episode.

During the interim, there were rumors that Jean Auel had died, was in serious decline, or had simply quit writing. Not true.

The sixth and purportedly final chapter of the series, The Land of the Painted Caves is in bookstores Wednesday, and early reviews indicate the wrap up may not be complete.

If you are not among those who have plowed through one of Auel’s reported 45 million books sold, here is an overview.

Five-year-old Ayla is an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl who finds herself taken in by Neanderthals in The Clan of the Cave Bear, the first book in the series called Earth’s Children. Through the course of five tomes (they average 700 pages), Ayla finds a mate, gives birth to a baby girl, Jonayla. Ayla isn’t an outcast any longer.

She’s the big prehistoric cheese.

The book jumped in at thte #5 spot on Amazon’s daily bestselling list.

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