Check out this cozy local bookstore.
Becker’s has been a mecca for readers since it was established in 1993. Co-owned by a married couple, Ann and Dan Becker, the bookshop operates as much as a labor of love as a profit-making venture.
“It started off as a hobby, more of an avocation than a vocation,” Dan said. “I just liked going and scouting for books. I liked going to sales and looking for hard to find, out of print books, sometimes for expensive out of print books. It’s kind of like rooting for acorns...I enjoyed that part of the hunt and the game of doing that and did that for a long time before I ever did open a bookstore.
Becker’s Books was very different from the big box bookstores I had become accustomed to. It looked as if a horde of books had forcibly colonized what was once a family home. The rooms of the old house had been thrown into one and divided into little alcoves by shelves which carried books to the ceiling. The air was heavy with the delightful fragrance of mellowed paper and the shop had a warm and comfortable feel.
There are, by the proprietors’ estimates, tens of thousands of volumes stacked in the cases and shelves. They are divided into the usual classics, hobbies, reference, and children’s sections in addition to those on more specialized areas like literary criticism, regional history, and Texana -- altogether, there are some 70 sections, a dizzying figure which excludes many, many subsections.
“We used to have the quote by J. R. R. Tolkien ‘Not all who wander are lost’ up everywhere because there’s something fun about the idea of exploring where it’s like I’m not just idly looking around. It’s like I’m looking for something but I’m willing to let myself be transformed by that process of looking and finding things that I don’t have in my mind before I set out to look for it.
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