Mystery Lovers Bookshop for sale

Interested in owning a book store?  A mystery lover's bookstore?  Here's your opportunity to take over an existing, well-known store:  Mystery Lovers Bookshop.

"Since it opened to big fanfare on Halloween of 1990 Mystery Lovers Bookshop has put Western Pennsylvania on the book world’s map as the target destination for book tours with hundreds of imaginative and packed author events.

The store has sponsored the area’s only Book Festival now in its 17th year with 45 authors and 400 readers attending. For over 15 years, Mystery Lovers has been a reporting store to the New York Times bestseller lists."

If I lived in Western Pennsylvania, I just might really think about it.  But, sadly, I don't.

reading and your brain

A recent study published online January 23 in the journal Archives of Neurology stated that " doing puzzles and reading books have been linked with a decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease, and a new study may explain why — it reduces the accumulation of harmful proteins in the brain."

Terrific news!  Now when I sit in my comfy chair and read instead of doing housework or other chores, I can say I am mentally stimulating my brain!   love it!

For more information on this study go to Vitals on MSNBC.

Mystery visits to Poe grave end

According to The Washington Post:

By Associated Press, Published: January 19

"Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall occur nevermore.

Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome said early Thursday that die-hard fans waited hours past when the tribute bearer normally arrives. But the “Poe Toaster” was a no-show for a third year in a row, leaving another unanswered question in a mystery worthy of the writer’s legacy. Poe fans had said they would hold one last vigil this year before calling an end to the tradition....

It is thought that the tributes of an anonymous man wearing black clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, who leaves three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe’s original grave on the writer’s birthday, date to at least the 1940s."