Sentence examples for bookstore closing from inspiring English sources

Re "For Bookshop, the Writing Is Fading," by Joseph Berger (column, Westchester and the Region, Feb. 24): It was with great sadness that I drew a line through Good Yarns, the independent bookstore closing in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on my list of stores to visit when my third book is released in September.

"So you remember that thing about the bookstore closing down?

Asked in London last week whether Oxfam was in fact the direct cause of any secondhand bookstore closing in Britain, Peter Moore, the chairman of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association, said that there was a case in addition to Ellwood Books, although he failed to provide a name.

And the pace of bookstore closing has only accelerated over the past few years.

The owner of the neighborhood bookstore closed his shop.

Every time a bookstore closes, an argument ends.

Does, say, Barbara Kingsolver get phone numbers after the bookstore closes?

If your neighborhood bookstore closes, as mine just did, it will be our own fault.

Another bookstore closes, another theatre becomes a condo, another soulful place becomes a sealed residence.

University officials locked down the campus, and a synagogue near the bookstore closed temporarily.

"Bookstores are being challenged now because the economy is down -- the city's only children's bookstore closed recently," she said, noting that her store was holding an E. Lynn Harris book signing yesterday.