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• Referral from April 10, 2009
  

  James B. asked:

  Independent Bookstores With Coffee Shops Attached I want to support independent bookstores more than I do. While I do buy books from independent bookstores, I have found myself heading down to (shudder) Chapters/Indigo more often than not, because of their coffee. The thing is this: my wife and I both write, and we have an eighteen month old daughter. A trick we have is to pile into our car and drive. While Vivian sleeps, Erin writes on the laptop. We head to a bookstore with a coffee shop attached so *I* can write while Vivian runs around the shelves and plays in the kid area. And so far, that has limited us to Chapters/Indigos in Burlington, Ancaster and London (we live in Kitchener). Then we pile back in the car and drive back; Vivian sleeps and Erin writes. Most of the independent bookstores I know don't have places to write, and most plain coffee shops aren't very kid friendly. Any suggestions for breaking the Chapters/Indigo monopoly in the GTA?

  

  Pete G. replied:

  In New Bremen, Ohio, south of Lima, is the New Bremen Coffee and Book Company. Great store in a great small town. I had a book group discussion there. The group read my second novel, A Lifetime of Deception and invited me in to talk about the book, the characters, where I see the story going, among other topics. They put on a great spread of smacks and of course, super coffee. You can see some pictures at www.pjgrondin.com.

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