There's a cat! The staff are friendly and the space is cozy. Found titles here I haven't seen anywhere and I love that!
Elizabeth Giesbrecht
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February 19, 2026
Carefully curated. Awesome non-fiction selection. Charlotte the cat is great company.
Sam Mintenko
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March 29, 2025
I would give 0 stars if possible. Worst experience in a bookstore of my entire life. I saw the most beautiful book ends in the window 2 days ago and was waiting to go back to purchase them. I walked in excitedly with my father and approached the counter to ask the owner to look at them. As I walked up, the owner was shaking his arms at me and angrily said “what??” Before I even said anything to him. The first words out of my mouth were “I’m sorry” because I believed I must have offended him with my presence somehow. I asked to see the lovely book ends and he angrily said they are not for sale. He reached for them to show me and HE knocked over a pile of books in the process. Perhaps if behind the store wasn’t so chaotically disorganized and messy that wouldn’t have happened. He acted like it was my fault that he knocked over the books, and said “Now I’m even more upset that I have all these books to clean up” and huffed and glared at me. I don’t even touch the book ends as I am afraid to anger him further. I asked him if he remembers where he bought them from and he said shortly “store closed down 10 years ago, can’t get them anymore”. He then proceeded to complain about his personal issues and that he shouldn’t even be there today because he is sick but needs to pay his rent… which was not my fault as a customer. I was also looking for books as well but based on his treatment towards me I told my dad let’s just leave. Even though they weren’t for sale, I would have offered him more than his original purchase price for those book ends that he kept on a shelf collecting dust. Disappointed and offended to say the least.
Sebastian Curd
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August 16, 2025
We were warned about the owner being unstable and he was, even with children. An extremely unpleasant man so we took our business elsewhere. A lesson or two in customer service is needed starting with a hello.
Petriee5
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February 06, 2026
Always a great experience. Walk in and lose yourself for a while scanning shelfs
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There's a cat! The staff are friendly and the space is cozy. Found titles here I haven't seen anywhere and I love that!
Carefully curated. Awesome non-fiction selection. Charlotte the cat is great company.
I would give 0 stars if possible. Worst experience in a bookstore of my entire life. I saw the most beautiful book ends in the window 2 days ago and was waiting to go back to purchase them. I walked in excitedly with my father and approached the counter to ask the owner to look at them. As I walked up, the owner was shaking his arms at me and angrily said “what??” Before I even said anything to him. The first words out of my mouth were “I’m sorry” because I believed I must have offended him with my presence somehow. I asked to see the lovely book ends and he angrily said they are not for sale. He reached for them to show me and HE knocked over a pile of books in the process. Perhaps if behind the store wasn’t so chaotically disorganized and messy that wouldn’t have happened. He acted like it was my fault that he knocked over the books, and said “Now I’m even more upset that I have all these books to clean up” and huffed and glared at me. I don’t even touch the book ends as I am afraid to anger him further. I asked him if he remembers where he bought them from and he said shortly “store closed down 10 years ago, can’t get them anymore”. He then proceeded to complain about his personal issues and that he shouldn’t even be there today because he is sick but needs to pay his rent… which was not my fault as a customer. I was also looking for books as well but based on his treatment towards me I told my dad let’s just leave. Even though they weren’t for sale, I would have offered him more than his original purchase price for those book ends that he kept on a shelf collecting dust. Disappointed and offended to say the least.
We were warned about the owner being unstable and he was, even with children. An extremely unpleasant man so we took our business elsewhere. A lesson or two in customer service is needed starting with a hello.
Always a great experience. Walk in and lose yourself for a while scanning shelfs