Book Stores
Rose Moon Books
About Rose Moon Books
Browsing is the whole point of a bookshop, and it is the one thing a screen has never managed to reproduce. Rose Moon Books is at 3012 29 St, among the shaded storefronts that make up the middle of Vernon.
Bookshops differ in ways that matter once you are after something specific. Some carry only new stock, some deal in used copies and take trade ins, and many do both, which changes what turns up on any given visit. Ask whether a title that is not on the shelf can be ordered in and how long that usually takes, since that single question turns a shop into a supplier rather than a lucky dip. If you are buying for a child, ask where the age ranges are shelved rather than guessing from the covers. Gift buyers should ask about wrapping, and about cards and other small goods, which many shops carry alongside the books.
There is a seasonal logic to reading at this end of the valley. Winters are colder and longer here than farther south in the Okanagan, and the long evenings are the reason a stack gets built up through the autumn. Summer flips it, with paperbacks going down to the beaches at Okanagan Landing and out along Kalamalka Lake, and the end of the Okanagan Rail Trail dropping cyclists into the downtown core looking for somewhere unhurried to spend an hour. A shop in the middle of town catches both halves of that year.
Visiting Rose Moon Books
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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