December 2008
Wait, hold on a second. Yup, it's a Christmas...
I just got a phone call from Kelly, the owner of this beautiful book store, and he has said he will be posting on the tumblelog once in a while in my absence (thus making him the oldest person to ever use tumblr). He will be putting up pictures of his Christmas vacation in San Fran among other craziness. Thus, there will be no lack of tumbling at 274 Garry over the holidays. Hip hip hooray!
…. the champange has been popped! Winnipeg, you have twenty minutes to get a last minute present that someone dear to you will actually like.
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On tumbling over the holidays
It ain’t happening. And if it does happen it will be sporadic at best. To all the awesome Aqua Books’ customers and everyone in the tumblr universe, have fun and stay fit safe. See you in the New Year.
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K, wait, what?
Customer: I thought your balls were cameras...
Dave: Uhhh....
Customer: *points*
Dave: Oh, our Christmas decorations. Yea, just regular Christmas balls...
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn...”
– Umberto Eco (via bunkercomplex) (via markn)
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“Christmas holidays are the perfect time to knock back that epic novel...”
– - Me True story.
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Customer walks up with an armful of books and...
Customer: Hi, what's your exchange policy?
Kelly: Are these gifts?
Customer: No, I'm just wondering if I can exchange a book if I read it and don't like it...
Kelly: Uhhh no. You kinda have to make up your mind about that now.
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to all you last minute shoppers...
paperbackgirl:
i have a personal tradition of gifting everyone i know a present AND a book i want them to read. if you haven’t finished up your shopping, books make a great last minute gift :) email me if you need suggestions.
… And you can find some great looking used copies so it doesn’t put you over budget.
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Dave and the battle of feminism
Dave: .... so I'm at this med school party and I convince this girl that I'm a medical Doctor.
Chandra: That's horrible.
Dave: Yea definitely. She goes "so what is your speciality?" and I'm all like "listen, I work 80 hours a week, I don't want to come to a party and talk about my job, you know?"
Kelly: Dave was the reason that feminism was started.
Dave: It only lasted for 5 minutes!.... then someone told on me.
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“Great bookshops are the heart of every literary culture, the chambers where...”
– Andrew O’Hagan describing “the perfect bookshop” in the Guardian (via 52books)
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letsbeglad: Bird and the Bee - Carol of the Bells
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“The girl was beautiful but that was completely beside the point.”
– - A sentence Michael Van Rooy, Aqua Books Writer in Residence, wrote this week while working on his third novel upstairs at 274 Garry.
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“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still...”
– jerry seinfeld (via paperbackgirl)
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