A little while back I blogged about Aqua Books, the Winnipeg independent bookstore that captured the attention of a certain soup company for use of an Andy Warhol-style logo featuring a red and white labeled soup can. It’s just been officially announced that the bookstore will soon be serving soup as well as other fare at [...]
If you have followed this blog for a while, you might have read about my favourite used bookstore – Aqua Books. In addition to describing some of the cool things that happen there (besides the selling of great used books at great prices) I think I may have mentioned some of the cool magnets that [...]
Yesterday I wrote about my favourite seller of new books. Today, some information on my favourite used bookstore, Aqua Books. If you are a follower of the smart, witty and informative Aqua Books weekly e-mail (sign up at kelly@aquabooks.ca), you already know bookstore owner Kelly Hughes (also smart, witty and informative) is planning on moving from [...]
In my last post I neglected to mention one of the best book-related reasons to visit Winnipeg… That’s because McNally Robinson Booksellers deserves a post of its own. As reported in Manitoba Calling Magazine in 2003, Holly McNally has been running bookstores in Winnipeg since 1981 when she opened a corner bookstore with business partner Rob Robinson. He later left [...]
