Reader's Choice Awards - Reader's Choice Shopping

POSTED: Monday, Dec. 08, 2008

Best bookstore: Village Books

FIRST PLACE

VILLAGE BOOKS

Location: 1200 11th St., 671-2626, hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday

Web site: www.villagebooks.com

From the boss: "We've tried for over 28 years now to respond to what the community wanted, and what readers (in Readers' Choice) saying this means to us is that we've been successful in some part in doing that." Chuck Robinson, co-owner with Dee Robinson

Reader rave: "I love walking into a bookstore and spending lots of time reading a few pages of lots of different books. I feel like Village Books is a sweet place to go in and I could spend three hours reading different books. It's an interesting place to go and search for what to read next." Ben Goodwin, Ferndale

Highlights: Village Books offers Bellingham more than a local, independent shop with a wide selection of nearly 75,000 volumes of reading material. The store is a meeting place where shoppers can browse for hours, losing themselves in huge picture books, sipping a latte at the Book Fare Cafe on the second floor, or listening to a favorite author share a few favorite passages from a new book at a Literature Live event. Need a gift for your favorite book-lover? Check out the weekly best seller list or ask for a staff recommendation.