Joseph De La Cruz

Barnes & Noble’s closure will leave El Cerrito in a virtual book desert

For some who go to a bookstore, it’s mostly to browse or to quickly pick up that bestseller that a friend told them to check out. For book lovers, though, a bookstore is more.  It is a place to escape whatever is going on, to get lost in a world that for a short time is better than their reality. Even if they don’t leave the store with anything, it still provided the safe haven they needed.  This is a…