The Book Nook

Fun! My daughter loved to come an browse and buy her next reads here.
I need to remember to bring her old books so dad can exchange them.
Located on one of the Main Street and has that old feel with a creepy door and flooring.
Now dad gets an ice cream for being patient.

Greg M, what a cleverly written review!
All of the plusses you listed are on target! Or on fleek, or whatever the young people are saying these days.
Too bad your only complaint is less reflective of the shop itself and more a glimpse of what is surrounding community reads. You see, that’s how used book stores work. Customers bring in books they’ve read, get credit, and use it towards the purchase of books other people have read and turned in. Or they just buy books other people have turned in, with cashy money and no store credit. The stock is created by the customers. What a wonderful opportunity for you to help them have the proper oblique, esoteric texts available for local and visiting hipsters!
And how great is it for a local book store to have multiple copies books like Animal Farm that might be on local school reading lists!
I think what really sets this place apart is the unique selection of literary jewelry and trinkets. If an Edgar Allen Poe necklace isn’t the perfect stocking suffer, I don’t know what is!
Five stars, hand down.

As a matter of conscience, I can’t give a small, local, old-​school bookstore anything less than four stars, but due to selection available, Book Nook is kind of pushing it to get those four stars that you see up there.
It’s a quaint little bookstore in a quaint little downtown, with the appropriately creaky wooden floorboards that any real bookstore should have. But that doesn’t excuse a selection that consists largely of even the worst of what folks call «light summer reading.» This is the kind of place that has three shelves of Dean Koontz, Patricia Cornwell, Tom Clancy and others of their mass-​produced, non-​literary ilk, and not a single book by Chandler or Hammett.
Or that has five copies of Animal Farm, but none of Homage to Catalonia or Down and Out in Paris and London.
Or that does not have a single book by Jack Kerouac. Yet has an entire room of cheesy romance novels.
I know they are pretty much obligated to give the people what they want, no matter how lousy that may be (things being what they are for bookstores these days) but that doesn’t mean I have to give them five stars, either.
It’d be like a restaurant in Brenham selling 20 kinds of ice cream, but not chocolate Blue Bell (pre-​listeria, of course).

Formally «Avalon Books» this is now primarily a used book store with a few new copies that attends to book clubs and a few popular books. Very knowledgable staff who sold me my first «Harry Potter» books. They buy used books for store credit.