Pages: a bookstore — Local services in Manhattan Beach

It's been so long since we've had a real bookstore. Just go there to see what that is. Manhattan Beach was the home of the original Either/Or Bookshop, which had been a bookshop before in that location, in the 1950s -- it might be the same building the pancake place on Highland occupies. Another small bookstore and stationers was on S. Side of MB Blvd W. Of valley/ardmore E. of Highland: I could get another Nancy Drew Mystery there, the reissued 1930s-40s ones. Right there was a music store with records and one or two listening booths. This bookstore reminded me of the old one on Highland long ago, "the" bookstore around here: it even got Tropic of Cancer as soon as it became legal to read it in the US. Pages is in the same geographic and intellectual realm, with an emphasis on locally relevant, as if the Feng Shui of the long-ago energy pulled bookstore energy up out of the earth just offset a bit to the North. It's a spiritual time-travel. Check it out.

Park away from there and walk. It's better that way. Parking, looking for the shop from a car along that stretch of road can be hectic and get you out of sorts. The walk is pretty and relaxing, once you find a place to park. (Many of the E-W streets above there are walk...

I love books although I don't buy them too often. When I do buy books, I like to support local bookstores. I love Pages! It is a fun and friendly place to go and they are happy to order/pre-order books for me if they don’t have it. I really want to support our local businesses right now, so I decided to order a few books and take advantage of their curbside pickup (we are still isolating as much as possible). They were so helpful! A book I had pre-ordered a few months ago was released but they held onto it until my other pre-order was released and the rest of my order was complete so I could pick everything up together. When they called to let me know my books were in, they offered to drop them off for us so we wouldn’t even have to go out! Such great service, Already planning some more books to add...

I showed up 10 minutes before close because I had just finished all of the books I brought with me. They asked me what genre I liked and what I liked about it. I said fantasy and word building. They then gave me several recommendations with detailed descriptions of each one. They are obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about their work....