Pathway Bookstores

Pathway Bookstores

Pathway Bookstores

There's something magical about a book that can make people behave like they are scoping out tickets for a rock concert.

And that's what was truly amazing about standing in a bookstore at 11:59 on July 20th as hundreds of people stood in line, counting down the final seconds until they could own Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which, unless you've been living under a bridge somewhere in Nowhere Land, you know is the final book in the saga of Harry Potter.

The night began with what I would later realize was the calm before the storm. I had taken on the task of volunteering to help at the bookstore which my best friend manages. Though I don't regret a minute spent there, to say I was under-prepared was, well, an understatement.