Colleen M.
Yelp
Having made a trip to Middleburg in no small part to check out this new bookstore, I really wanted to like it. Unfortunately, that was not in the cards.
The space is lovely, but the sales staff was exhausting. The entire time we were browsing, a woman - the proprietor? - was very loudly and somewhat aggressively approaching customers and talking their faces off. My husband and I both remarked it was too loud to think and not what we expect from a bookstore.
When she asked me if I was interested in a title, I said I was looking for Outofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold.
In a dismissive and condescending tone, I was told that "we find celebrity biographies don't sell well in Middleburg." I responded that it was actually a New York Times best selling memoir by a two-time national champion and Olympian. Flummoxed, she offered to order it for me. No, thanks. Don't (inaccurately) insult a book and then try to sell it to me.
The women left me to loudly share her child's chess exploits with a woman shopping in the children's section and we quickly left for the quiet of Middleburg's other shops.
