This Saturday was Independent Booksellers Day and I went over to one of my favourite, Iron Dog Books.\u00a0 This is a small, but busy, bookstore.\u00a0 The owners started with a bus, but now have this great little shop on Hastings.\u00a0 I have other favourites as well.\u00a0 Over in North Van, Edgemont Village, a great little community, is bookended by 2 stores; on the north end, 32 Books, and at the south end, Kidsbooks.\u00a0 This is a satellite of the original Kidsbooks in Kitsilano.\u00a0 All of these bookstores are wonderful places, filled with books (of course), and, wait for it, employees who are readers!\u00a0 This is the joy of independent bookstores.\u00a0 When you go into one, the booksellers are also book lovers, and therefore book readers.\u00a0 They are founts of information and suggestions.\u00a0 Their enthusiasm for the books they order and sell is palpable.\u00a0 I have bought many a book that I’ve ended up loving on the recommendation of these wonderful people.\u00a0 They are my people and I love the opportunity to visit and to surround myself – and you, BMSS students – with their books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This Saturday was Independent Booksellers Day and I went over to one of my favourite, Iron Dog Books.\u00a0 This is a small, but busy, bookstore.\u00a0 The owners started with a bus, but now have this great little shop on Hastings.\u00a0 I have other favourites as well.\u00a0 Over in North Van, Edgemont Village, a great little community, is bookended by 2 stores; on the north end, 32 Books, and at the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}