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| - Fair warning: This covers both a review on the location and the Post Secret Event.
My appreciation of these books and that of nearly a hundred others is amazing. I haven't seen rain or wind like this in Arizona in a while, but people from all over the Valley braved highways and waterlogged streets to attend a PostSecret event at the bookstore.
I show up in one piece, having dodged crazy drivers, to see that the rather large plaza Changing Hands is in filled with parked cars. As I snagged a place I wondered if people would park in another lot and frogger it across the street.
Changing Hands was warm, and smelled like spice, bread (probably because of the Wild Flower Bread Company attached) and a library - that fabulous smell of new books and old books which stirs the imagination and, especially since Changing Hands is a used book store, of what rare gem you might find tucked away on a shelf between two new/newer releases.
The front of the store, a good fourth of the entire space, is a showcase to what I am assuming is local crafts: jewelry, notebooks, wallets, soaps, tea/tea cups and an interesting new take on a charm bracelet (it's a clear locket that you open up and drop small charms into... anyway...)
The rest of the store is like all other bookstores; broken down by genre. It was rather easy to find my way around the store but in retrospect I was surprised that it didn't have as large of a selection of new books as a chain location nor the used selection that a place like Half-Priced Books or Bookmans would have. All-in-all nice store, great staff and an easy to access location.
I waited in line with gaggle of teens and young adults barely in their 20s. Dozens were already seated and the remaining area was standing room only. The event started soon after and if you've ever read the PostSecret books the whole event unraveled like one large secret.
Frank Warren talked about his past, his secret postcards within each book, how the whole idea got started. He was genuine, and during the question/answer session listened almost as if he held his breath, waiting to hear what the audience member had to say. He always thanked the audience members for sharing their experiences and thanked them for the "good questions".
It was amazing to be sitting with other people that found the books just as fascinating as I did. You could feel it in that little area we were in, cocooned from the rest of the store, as we all listened, focusing solely on him, and the secrets of strangers that somehow united us.
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