The Sims 3 Retail Therapy
By C’Loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa It began with a sudden, intense need to have my own castle. Perhaps it was because I am in the process of house hunting and my modest means are not conducive to owning an actual castle, so…
Perpetual Lowbie: How I Learned to Stop Grinding and Start Enjoying Low Levels
By C’Loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa I love MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games). The game worlds are huge and the game never ends. I’ve played dozens of MMORPGs and the one thing they have in common is that I have next to…
PAX South 2016: My Ladies Gaming Adventure
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa I traveled with a couple of my friends for a ladies’ gaming adventure to PAX South in San Antonio, TX, the last weekend in January. The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is the go-to gaming convention for gamers…
Freebie Fridays: Sunnyside Breakfast Lounge
*** CONTEST CLOSED *** Januarys are ideal for ambitious resolutions, trying unfamiliar things and reevaluating goals. Remember to put that special someone first–YOU! This month, Bookmans Mesa offers you the chance to try something new. In east Mesa, nestled below the vast hillsides of the…
Jem and the Holograms Light Up Attire with Showtime Synergy
It’s Jan-YOU-Ary, time to focus on you. If you seek something other than the latest wellness trends or book-ish resolutions to treat your inner geek, then Bookmans Mesa has a suggestion. Let Jem and the Holograms light up your attire.
Bookmans Recommends: Hamilton
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa It sounds like a ridiculous concept: a hip-hop musical about the life of American Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton (you know, the guy on the $10 bill), performed by an almost entirely non-White cast. Nevertheless Hamilton: An American…
Final Fantasy VII Remake Official Trailer Released
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Back in 2005 when the Final Fantasy VII sequel movie, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, was released, rabid Final Fantasy fans begged Square Enix to release a remake of the 1997 Playstation classic. Ten years later, Square…
Freebie Fridays: Downtown Mesa Association Gift Cards
**This Freebie Friday offer is closed.** As part of our belief that it pays to shop local, each and every Friday this November Bookmans Mesa hosts a new contest called Freebie Fridays. This series showcases a different local business every week and offers you a…
Freebie Fridays: Design*Lab By DDG
**This Freebie Friday offer is closed. Come back to our website this Friday for your next chance to win.** As part of our belief that it pays to shop local, each and every Friday this November Bookmans Mesa hosts a new contest called Freebie Fridays….
Freebie Fridays: Lulubell Toy Bodega
**This Freebie Friday offer is closed. Come back to our website this Friday for your next chance to win.** As part of our belief that it pays to shop local, each and every Friday this November Bookmans Mesa hosts a new contest called Freebie Fridays….
Freebie Fridays: Sunnyside Breakfast Lounge
**This Freebie Friday offer is closed. Come back to our website this Friday for your next chance to win.** As part of our belief that it pays to shop local, each and every Friday this November Bookmans Mesa hosts a new contest called Freebie Fridays….
Shop Local, Give Local on Freebie Fridays with Bookmans Mesa
In our ongoing effort to give back to our local community and support local business, Bookmans Mesa presents Freebie Friday, a giveaway every Friday throughout November. What is this crazy talk of free things AND Fridays? We assure this all to be true! Who doesn’t…
Write a Novel in 30 Days with NaNoWriMo 2015
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa November is right around the corner and so is National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo (as it’s called) is an annual writing marathon started by Chris Baty in 1999 as a way to get himself, and about a…
Get Repossessed with The Exorcist
“The belief in evil and the belief that evil can be cast out.” From these two strands of faith, author William Peter Blatty weaves a frightening, explicit and realistic tale of an innocent young girl inhabited by a malevolent entity. The Exorcist endures as a…
Bookmans Recommends: Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk’s Conman
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Earlier this year, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion of Firefly/Serenity fame, launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the first few episodes of their comedy web series, Conman. They initially asked for $425,000 to fund three 10-minute episodes,…
Bookmans Recommends: Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk's Conman
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Earlier this year, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion of Firefly/Serenity fame, launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the first few episodes of their comedy web series, Conman. They initially asked for $425,000 to fund three 10-minute episodes,…
Bookmans Recommends: You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa I’ve been a Felicia Day fan since her comedy web series The Guild debuted on YouTube in 2007, introducing the world to the trials and tribulations of Cyd Sherman and her gaming guild as they try to…
Bookmans Recommends: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa I’ve been a Felicia Day fan since her comedy web series The Guild debuted on YouTube in 2007, introducing the world to the trials and tribulations of Cyd Sherman and her gaming guild as they try to…
Banned Books for Every Age
By Megan Maiden, Bookmans Enthusiast Like most rebellious children, I never liked being told what to do. I never liked being told that I couldn’t watch a certain kind of movie, couldn’t listen to a certain kind of music or couldn’t read a certain kind…
World of Warcraft: Legion Preview
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Fresh off of their latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor (released November 2014), World of Warcraft announced their sixth expansion, Legion, bringing even more content to the massive Warcraft universe. Legion sees the return of the dreaded Burning…
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