Florey's Book Co.: The 'Goal Is to Engage the Public'

Aaron Schlieve, owner of Florey's Book Co., Pacifica, Calif., "runs a shop whose goal is to engage the public," the San Jose Mercury News reported in a profile of the bookstore that was opened in 1977 by Schlieve's grandmother Mary and her brother Jon Black.  

Noting that he began working in his grandmother's bookshop after high school and took it over when she died in 2008, Schlieve said, "I have always been keen on learning as much as I can about a topic that interests me. In addition, it is always nice to hear about a topic from someone who is knowledgeable and enthusiastic." His grandmother once told him she kept the bookstore going because she could not be responsible "for one more nonreader in the world," a philosophy her grandson continues.

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