Notes: Reasons for Opening; Slotnick Profiled
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The Minot Daily News profiles Main Street Books, a new and used bookstore that Val Stadick opened March 27 at 16 S. Main St. in Minot, N.D. The store also sells Melissa & Doug Educational Wood Toys and Puzzles, art by local artists and a small collection of DVDs featuring current releases. Stadick will start stocking magazines soon.
Stadick graduated from Minot State University in 1999 with a major in English and minor in business administration--a good combination for a bookseller. She told the paper that she worked for six years at a local thrift shop and bought many books for herself but didn't have the energy to read them all. Still, the shop, she said, "gave me good retail experience. So, I asked myself why don't I just open up a bookstore? As a result, I'm not as tired at the end of the day and can complete my reading."
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Larry Portzline offers a glowing review of a radio story highlighting a New York City bookseller whose tiny store has a big reputation.
Our friend and Bookstore Tourism supporter Bonnie Slotnick was featured on NPR's All Things Considered over the weekend in a piece by Debbie Elliott. Her cookbook store at 163 W. 10th Street in Greenwich Village, called Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, has become a New York institution thanks to Bonnie's awesome reputation as the go-to gal for old, foreign or hard-to-find cookbooks (the interview calls her a "cookbook sleuth"). Chefs, gourmands and food critics from the U.S. and abroad often show up on Bonnie's doorstep to browse her tiny shop--and sometimes just to find a specific recipe! The participants on my Greenwich Village bookstore trips LOVE Bonnie's store, and many of them say it was their favorite stop of the day.
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The Daily Astorian profiles Karen Emmerling, owner of Beach Books in Seaside, Ore., which opened late last year (Shelf Awareness, November 21). Among the reasons for opening the store: her husband, John, said, "We either had to open this bookstore or we were going to go broke" since his wife couldn't visit a bookstore without buying something.
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The Maui News traces the latest in the controversy in Hawaii over The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman, following the interview of him by a Hawaiian congressman that aired over the weekend on Book TV. Some Hawaiians say they are offended by Tayman's interpretations and claim inaccuracies.
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