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Abbotsford #5-2630 Bourquin Crescent West 604.853.READ (7323)
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As the Pages Turn - Our Blog
We constantly come across unbelievable book covers, fantastic book art, and strange oddities that we feel are worthy of sharing with others.
W. P. Kinsella!
It's not every day that you get to have your picture taken with a literary superstar of the likes of W. P. Kinsella in your bookstore! Well, okay, it's true.... he does shop at our store, but this particular evening he was reading from his new book (and first in 13 years!) Butterfly Winter.
A sizeable group of people attended the event, and Kinsella gave us goosebumps with his beautiful prose. People who had actually VISITED the Field of Dreams because of his book Shoeless Joe came to the event, one even bringing a baseball for him to sign.
It was a very special evening, complete with all manner of delicious sugary goodies.
Dec 9, 2011 at 8:22 PM
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Be the first to comment on this postIntroducing Carissa!
Carissa is our newest addition to The Book Man team. A long time customer and lover of all things book related, Carissa brings passion, years of capable customer service experience and a warm heart to work with her every day (oh, and some pretty great humour as well) Here she is showing you her staff picks shelf, newly put together out in Abbotsford:
Come on in, let her recommend a book (or two, or three) to you and discover what we've already figured out - Carissa is GREAT!
Concert Series in Abbotsford - Belle
Join us at our Abbotsford branch Friday, October 7th at 7pm to listen to the sweet tunage of Belle Plaine! Visit her website for a preview
of her lovely style. Admission is by donation, and our bookstore
will be open for the event.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
It's official, we've turned Gatsby into a window
display. Here he is, working hard selling
cat books.
Sunny Afternoons and Books
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There is something unbeatably delicious about a good book, enjoyed in a beam of sunlight. That hazy, warm glow illuminating your pages and warming your bones. Or perhaps you like leaning up against a tree, the shade keeping you cool on a warm day, the trunk firm and supportive against your back. Maybe you're a full on sun worshipper, spread out on a towel or blanket at the beach, a paperback perched in front of you, a cool drink to your right. How does the sun, and your reading experience please you the most? Leave us your comments, and give other summer readers some new ideas!
The sun in shining in Abbotsford
The sun from today dispels the gloominess of yesterday; a customer said, "It's the Pacific Northwest.... what is there to do BESIDES read?" yesterday, but today I can think of all manner of things. Okay... so what I mean by all manner of things is taking your book to various locales around town, it's true. Reading at the lake, under a tree in a park, at the beach.... utterly delicious.
Any good bookstore needs.... BOOKS!
It's official. Our Abbotsford store is now starting to look like a BOOK store, thanks to the books that we brought there last week. Despite the fact that we're still doing construction and putting together the last of the cabinetry, we're starting to load books in. It seems inconceivable that we're going to be open in two weeks, but we're just trying to concentrate on each day as it comes, each book as it goes into, and comes out of a box, and nothing else. With a little faith, a LOT of hard work, and an increasing sense of excitement, The Book Man, Abbotsford Branch, will open on July 15, 2011.
Open in two weeks, eh?
Our mystery cabinets are starting to get filled with books!
You must be the change you wish to see in the world!
Book Man Crew represents Chilliwack and their business on the morning after the riots in Vancouver. True Canadian spirit, being the change we want to see in the world.
New Store Opening July 1st
We keep updating our facebook, and forgetting to blog. Bad Book Man people!
So the rumours are true; we are opening up a second branch of The Book Man in Abbotsford come July 1st. We'll keep you posted, but thought that at the very least, we should make a little announcement about it here.
The store itself will be located in Little Oak Mall on Bourquin, and will be approximately 1600 square feet, a mere baby in comparison with our Chilliwack store (5,000 square feet) We'll have access to our database, and will be happy to bring anything and everything that customers in Abby would like to see out from our Chilliwack branch.
Nietzsche, our bookstore cat in Chilliwack will be staying put, but we have been checking out other feline friends at Safe Haven to see if we can find the right cat for our Abbotsford store. We have the landlord's permission, and are looking forward to giving another amazing cat a home in our new branch.
More info to come!!
Kabob Mohawk!
Looking for new ideas for BBQing this sumer? How about making a KABOB MOHAWK IN A CABBAGE!!!! Yeah, baby!
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