True Story
So, I’m at a 70th wedding anniversary of my great aunt and uncle in Chilliwack. One of my 3rd cousins from Montreal is talking to me about Winnipeg and asks, “have you ever been to this great bookstore in downtown Winnipeg, Aqua Books?”
Awesome.
(This just in from ex-emp Dave Burrows)
McNally may suck, but you rock, Noodles. Thx you. (Yours is better than my feeble attempt.)
Happy Anniversary to my great friend – Kelly Hughes, on his monumental 10th year of working his dream gig as the always cheeky owner of Aqua Books.
The original “Winnipeg’s Bookstore” that McNally Robinson shut down in the course of their empire-building.
Aqua Books, a Bible and a Love Letter:
I was being Canadian this afternoon and went to pick up a Tim Horton’s coffee for Chandra and I (the Bistro was busy). As I was waiting for the beverages a nice young lady walked in who I recognized as someone I sold an old Bible to last week. At the time she bought the Bible she was very excited because it was a gift to someone on the occasion of their baptism in the 1950s.
I head-nodded, she smiled and walked over.
She told me a lovely story of how in that Bible she had found a love letter from a clergyman (denomination unknown) to the lady who had previously owned the Bible.
Thinking that the previous Bible owner might want this love letter the nice young lady Googled the name written in the Bible and found her phone number. My Tim Horton’s friend then called her up and told her the situation.
The older lady was ecstatic. She explained that she and her husband (who penned the letter) had decided to clear a bunch of their books out and had brought them to Aqua Books. She had no idea this letter was in that Bible.
These two are meeting up next week so the love letter can make its way back to the rightful owner, and to have a bit of a chat. Just two Bible owners from different eras having a cup of coffee.
Aqua Books: 95,371
McNally Robinson: 3
Four of our Saturday morning regulars are in a Book Club that was featured in the Globe and Mail today
Interesting story about the Saturday morning breakfast crew; they use to meet at the McNally in Portage Place but were choked when they left downtown. So, they now come to Eat! every Saturday. On top of that, they were actually our very first customers when the bistro opened.
Suck it……
Suck it, McNally (though, to be honest…. we don’t really agree).
Tory McNally on selling books for cheap over the holidays because of the possible recession in Canada
“We made a table with books under $20 and sign saying ‘A big screen TV never changed anyone’s life’ - It worked”
(via PW)
A table? Under $20? We have 25,000 books under $10.
Suck it, McNally.
Aqua Books named to the top 20 under $20 in Winnipeg
Feed your literary appetite at Aqua Books (274 Garry St.), located in the “benevolent capitalist shadow of Portage and Main.” The used bookstore is home to the Stone Soup Storytellers, ideaExchange lecture series and Speaking Crow open-mike poetry. Check www.aquabooks.ca for upcoming (mostly free) events. Also, 85 per cent of the 40,000 books are priced at under $10.
Suck it, McNally.
