Neighbor Books will open this summer at 208 E Louisiana St. in McKinney, Tex., Community Impact reported that co-owners Joey and Ginny Honescko plan to feature a wide selection of general fiction and nonfiction, a "robust children's section" with weekly story times, as well as book clubs and other local events. Drinks, including tea and coffee, are also on offer.
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| Neighbor Books owners Ginny and Joey Honescko | |
"This was one of the few things missing downtown, just a good local bookstore," Joey Honescko said. "Having that will be just another complement to the things that are going on down there. I just can't express enough how excited we are just to be able to offer something to McKinney. We just... love this place so much"
Neighbor Books will be located in the space currently occupied by Carpe Diem Comics. Shelving and seating are going to be added but no significant changes are planned for the space. Honescko noted: "The building is from... the late 1800s, so we don't want to mess with a whole lot there. It's so beautiful as it is."
He described a bookshop as a place that fosters conversations and interactions about literature: "We love the potential of what a bookstore can do. It's this overlap between people and ideas."
The store's name was inspired by the "neighbor mentality," which connects people based on proximity and despite their differences. "There's something lost, at times, in the digital world where we can sort of be removed from this neighbor mentality," Honescko said. "Our hope is that what we'll see through Neighbor [Books is] that there's more that... unites us, even if we are coming from all these differences."