January 2009
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“I don’t know of any good living poets. But there’s this tough son of...”
– Charles Bukowski referring to Al Purdy. Mondo Purdy is just two and a half weeks away!
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Ladies, if your purse was stolen just outside of... →
Couldn’t get this up in time for Black Books Tuesday but here it is (for some reason Youtube is pretty vigilant about making sure you can’t embed clips from the show)
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“It’s Lauren here. Remember me? I used to come into your bookstore all the time on Princess. Now I live in Tokyo. The sad part about living in Tokyo is that I can’t eat at EAT! I just wanted to congratulate you on your great success with Aqua! It sounds as though things are going really great for you, and the business/thought-fostering centre/restaurant establishment is the thing...
WatchDave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, won a 2008 TED award for his work in fostering community in San Francisco. (Past winners include Bono, who won for his work in managing to keep his name in the papers.) While Eggers’ work involves kids (and I happen to hate children), we at Aqua Books are trying to do a similar thing in creating community in Winnipeg,...
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Would life be life without Google?
Kelly: Come on Gmail, what's wrong!?
Kelly: Could you imagine if Google ever went down?
Dave: Oh man, people's lives would be over.
Kelly: Yea, I couldn't get into my Gmail for 55 seconds just now. I would have rather not had my legs for that minute.
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John Updike, Author, Dies at 76 →
kaytee: (via robot-heart)
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sabrinamillis: I’m at Eat to pick up lunch for work but apparently it’s closed today. Boooo!
Noooo! Sorry about that. We’re open Tuesday - Saturday from 11am - 9pm. Try again, though, for sure. And here is a little insiders tip; if you’re just going to pick up some food and take it back to the office you should call us at the bookstore (943-7555) and we’ll put your order...
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“… I like your tumblelog by the way.”
– Andrew, a new customer.
Sweet vindication!!
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Top 10 Saturday
Every Saturday we’ll post an Aqua Books’ staff member’s top 10 favorite books. Second up is bookstore owner Kelly Hughes. Go Kelly go!
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole The Hobbit - Tolkien The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Dying Earth - Jack Vance The Inklings - Humphrey Carpenter The Red Pavilion - Robert Van Gulik Two for the Lions - Lindsey Davis The Number One...
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bayardlau:
aquabooks:
ashleyharder: Helga and I went to go checkout an adorable bookstore tonight. When leaving we were asked to stop… Then was asked ‘wait.. Are you Ashley harder’. Thanks Tumblr!! Cute boy btw… New rule: when anyone from tumblr visits the bookstore we have to high five. Cute tumblettes btw…
what about ginger tumblrz?
Specifically those reblogging this post? do they get high...
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“Respect doesn’t have to mean sympathy, friendship or fellow feeling. We...”
– Michael Ignatieff, writer, historian, politician and interm leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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“This is a wild and wonderful scheme! A fabulous act of imagination and daring....”
– - Poet Dennis Cooley (on being asked to participate in Mondo Purdy! 2009…. watch out for it)
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“You have great pastries! And also the best Water Closets in town!”
– A friendly customer sharing his opinion of our food and bathrooms on his way out the door.
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16 things
I didn’t notice that aggiecore tagged us in this little game until now sooooo…. here are 16 random things about Aqua Books and the people who work here. ***Kelly and Dave tag teamed this list***
1. Aqua Books came into existence as Aslan and Frodo’s 10 years ago this year, in a 700 sq ft space. 2. Bookstore owner Kelly Hughes was on the CTV show “Let’s Go” as a...
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