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Barnes & Noble Booksellers
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Category: Bookstores [Edit]
Neighborhood: La Mesa5500 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 223
(between Havenhill Rd & La Mesa Blvd)
La Mesa, CA 91942
(619) 667-2870
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
10 reviews for Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Part of our weekend ritual is to visit Barnes and Noble (sometimes Borders) to browse. Coffee and World Market are right at the ready (Jelly Babies and Espresso, ooh-lala!).
I've never conversed with one member of the staff, but any store that carries a line of Vespa products -- Vespa headlight clock! is well worth the trip!
Can't a single, good looking guy (me) go into a book store and not get hit on EVERY SINGLE TIME! geez, sometimes a guy just needs to get his read on; take it easy ladies. lol.
But seriously, I just recently learned how to read, and found out there are these stores filled with these things called books...and so now, instead of going to a local coffee house to read, I will cruise on over to a book store and kick it for a bit.
Other than the lack of parking at Grossmont Center, this is a good Barnes & Nobles spot. I always forget how huge this location is. I think I just expect it to be smaller because its in a mall, I don't know, but its a nice location.
Starbucks is located just next door which is a plus.
Two complaints (for the hell of it).
1. Why is the poetry section (where I was last night) right next to the romance novels?! I was uncomfortable and didn't want to be seen standing beside those books. On a side note: what's up with the buff, shirtless men that still appear on the cover of those books...who is painting that crap?!
2. I hate you moleskin journals. The journals are strategically placed by the check-out, and they just seem too cool! I don't know how many freakin' empty journals I have, and yet I keep buying new ones! They're not all that cheap either...but compared to the old school composition notebooks, they are so cool!
Anyway. Its a nice, large store with friendly staff. You also surrounded with a bunch of nice people who can read.
Marwan doesn't lie.
I am a Borders girl, through and through. And there are only select times that I will even set foot into a B&N.
1. If i have a gift card
2. If i am desperately in the need of a new book, spur of the moment, and its the closest book store
3. If i have searched every Borders, and don't feel like waiting 7 days to order
4. It's cheaper here, (which is almost never)
Saturday night, I was in La Mesa, checking out my friends new house. I decided that after I would stop at Target, and possibly check the near by B&N for a book that I had been looking for.
I spent a good 10 minutes looking in the section I figured my book would be, until I decided that maybe I should look it up to see if they even have any in the store. There are no customer computers, and I think that is extremely lame. I go up to the customer service counter, and ask them guy about it. He walks over to the section I was at, and after two seconds, says he doesn't see them, although the computer states they have two copies. He says he is sorry, and walks away.
No help at all.
There have been other times, the service has been really lame, and they NEVER have what I am looking for, I don't know why I even bother to come here.
Summertime & the livin's easy.........
Hurrah!!
Am done reading my first book of the summer as of tonight. Now it is onto the next book (which i started today,-double hurrah! hurrah!). Yippppeeeeeee. I almost forgot how much I truly adore reading.
Barnes & Noble, good for every ones booking needs.
**Hot Tip: If you don't feel like spending your hard earned cash on a book, feel free to lounge around the store a few hours a day till you finish your read. There is a Starbucks attached. Go in, grab a latte then read your heart out.
I dig corporate bookstores. They have comfy chairs and my comfort coffee (Starbucks of course).
This one is really big and has TWO registers I was so happy I didn't have to walk all the way back to the front, not because I'm lazy but out of fear I would find another 10 books to buy or a calender or a bookmark, oh my!
I especially like it when bookstores are grouped with other stores I go to. With gas prices these days I try to cut my shopping trips if I can help it.
With this Barnes location I can get a lot of stuff done at once.
I luuuuuv u Barnes :)
Something I love about this place is the smell. I must look like a crazy person every time I go in, picking up assortments of books with uncracked spines flipping through the pages smelling the sweet smell of new copys.
The children's section of Barnes & Noble is a favorite of mine. Reacquainting yourself with books that were dearest to you as a child is a nice breath of air. The little stage they have set up with the Winnie The Pooh backdrop makes for a very cute afternoon story-time for little ones, or for big kids :)
I really give this place props on being so organized and so clean! And the selections are incredible!
And for the more frequent readers, they have a membership card, which I highly recommend to get. I am disappointed in myself to say, "I don't have time to read" but I find this little green card to be pretty handy. And if your friends know what phone-number you used they can pretend they are you, and you get mad credits/coupons in the mail. For sure worth the 20 bucks to sign up for. Especially if you have the tendency to buy large stacks of books for leisure, classes, or presents.
It's easy to get lost in this place spending too many hours sitting in the corner with a stack of books. It's in no way comparable to Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, but for something local, this place rocks.
I've been in this bookstore a gazillion times, but have never had a yelp-worthy experience until a few days ago.
We're currently house-sitting for my parents in La Mesa. We haven't always had great experiences being gay and out in La Mesa...it's not like we walk around doing it or anything, but we do hold hands most anywhere and call each other "honey". Which has gotten us some LOOKS, especially at places like Oktoberfest. But that's beside the point...
We had dinner the other night at Rubio's in the mall, and then our son wanted to go to the bookstore. He knows darn good and well that neither of his mommies will EVER say no to going to the bookstore, so in we went. He got settled with books at the table in the kids section, and I went in search of my current quest - a book about having a new baby in the house that's not completely mommy-and-daddy based. No luck at B&N that night, but I spotted a clerk (sort of a middle aged, librarian-type, but that's not really important to the story) in the same section and figured I'd ask her. Here's about how it went:
Me: Excuse me.
Clerk with large armful of books: Can I help you?
Me: Just a question if you have a minute (eyeing large armful of books)
CWLAOB: Sure.
Me: Do you have any books about new babies that feature alternative families?
CWLAOB: Hmmm...I'm not sure...let's go look.
We walk over to the right section and she balances the LAOB on a shelf, begins pulling things out, looking at them, discussing. No luck.
Clerk (now without LAOB): We do have one good book with alternative families, but it's not about new babies - Heather Has Two Mommies.
Me: That's a good one, but not quite what I need.
Clerk: I don't think we have anything like what you're looking for...again, not the same, but have you read And Tango Makes Three?
Me: I love that book!
Clerk: Me too...I read it at storytime just the other day.
Me: Really? And...nobody...fussed about it? (It's a true story about two male penguins "adopting" a baby penguin and it's been banned in some school libraries)
Clerk: Nope. I just presented it like it was no big deal and that's how the children took it. And if people have a problem - well, it's their problem, isn't it? There are all kinds of families in this world.
At which point the ceiling cracked open, the ray of golden light spilled in, and the Hallelujah Chorus started up.
OK, not really. But it was so nice to find this attitude in a (somewhat) unexpected place that I just had to yelp about it.
7-25-08
After having lunch in the same mall...I wandered into the bookstore. I am such a sucker for bookstores...and even more for children's books. I really like the children's book section at this B&N. It's pretty nice. Not to mention, it was nice to find that some cool books were 20% off...and I also have a B&N member card that gave me an extra 10% off. I ended up purchasing 7 books and a lap desk. The awesome part was, there was no line! That never happens, since this place is always busy. Don't pass this place up!
this barnes and noble has a great selection of, well, pretty much of everything you need. i've never walked in and not found what i was looking for (and i frequent bookstores so you know that i know...ya know?)
thye have registers at both the front and back of the store and both are always open so you don't get stuck waiting all that often.
there is a starbucks on site so you can grab your favorite drink and sip away while you peruse the bargain section (a personal favorite - i've found some great gems there at a price that can't be beat) or just choose a book to read in one of their over-stuffed chairs and enjoy your beverage that way.
the only downside to this place is the older-than-the-hills bathroom that is always dirty and smelly - what's more, you have to ask a sales rep to unlock the door for you. they are always nice about it, but it's a big ol' pain in the rear.
This is the best bookstore in San Diego County. Unfortunately, it has shopping mall parking, so you have to walk a fair distance from the car. Fortunately, checkout is easy since most people who come there read the books while they are in the store instead of lining up to buy them (I don't blame them either--books are expensive and the San Diego Public Library system is mostly a waste of tax dollars).
