Books-A-Million

Rareties you’d think you’d never find in a chain bookstore can be found here, people included. Comics, LGBTQ, Spirituality & Independent Magazines galore. Not your traditional kind of Hixson store.

I wonder what Luke is looking for when he gives BAM-​Hixson only 3 stars.
I’ll bet when the internet finally gobbles them up, he will wish he’d given this great bookstore five stars.
This BAM is better than any Barnes & Noble I’ve ever been to. I pray that the Hixson BAM can hold on against Amazon.

I wasn’t even sure these stores existed anymore! Well, that’s not totally true, they still email me weekly, so I knew they existed somewhere. But I don’t know where one is in my town. Then again, I’ve never bothered to look… Okay, I guess I make too many assumptions.
Anyway, I went here looking for a cheap book so I’d have something to read on the plane after finishing the book I packed on the trip down. They had three racks outside with dollar and two buck books. I bought three really decent books for four dollars. Can’t top that!
The inside of the store was gigantic, even compared to most Barnes and Nobles and Borders I’ve been to. I also liked the layout. Big walkway down the center with clearance, promo and sale materials, flanked by your genre sections, with a giant magazine wall at the far, far back. There were some cool little knick-​knacks, some board games, including a new, bastardized Monopoly game with a circular board. Lame. Some things are best left alone!
The associate who rang me out was super friendly. I don’t carry most of my club cards on me, and my account wouldn’t pull up because I got it years and years ago, so she let me use her personal one. What a doll!