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The Bookstore
The Montana Bookstore Trail season has come to an end, but lucky for all of us, the bookstores are there to visit year-round. I still have many of them to tell you about. Dillon is my husband’s hometown, so he was excited for us to visit The Bookstore, which remains very much the same as…
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Wheatgrass Books
I got photos at some of the stores and at some I didn’t and that was all dependent on whether I remembered, or whether I was too busy wrangling my kids or too distracted with other logistics of our trip. So, I didn’t get photos at Wheatgrass Books in Livingston which is sad because it…
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Chapter One Book Store
Time for a little update on our mission to follow the MT Bookstore Trail. We’re 10 bookstores in! Just under half-way! We took a fantastic trip through Hamilton for a family event, then camping at the ghost town at Bannack, then West Yellowstone and YNP. We grabbed every bookstore we could get along the way.…
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Montana Bookstore Trail
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul.” Neil Gaiman Well, if Neil Gaiman says…. I don’t know about you but if my town didn’t have a bookstore, I’d be inspired to…
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Indie Bookstore Day
What’s the best day to shop at your local, independent bookstore? Any day they’re open! But today a little more than most. Today might be a good day to bring along a friend or share your book haul on social media. It’s Independent Bookstore Day. It seems obvious to me that having actual brick and…
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April is national poetry month
I was thinking about how to celebrate and I thought back to high school. Did you ever have to memorize a poem and recite it to an English class? I remember sitting there, half a dozen options already in my head. I was thrilled at the prospect of picking one. Around me, my classmates were…
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Isle Of books – Bozeman
It was raining as we walked to Isle of Books in Bozeman. From the outside, the store is surprising because it’s all full-length windows almost like looking into some sort of showroom. As soon as we stepped inside though, we were enveloped in warmth, the scent of books, and that feeling of wonder that always…
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This House of Books
This is the final day to be entered for the Montana Bookstore Trail drawing. Between my husband and myself, we’ve managed to visit nineteen of the twenty-one bookstores on the trail this summer. I have no intention of stopping. This fall, I plan to visit the stores I didn’t make it to and I’ll write…
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Isle of Books – Butte
Our whole visit to Butte was amazing. The four stops on the Montana Bookstore Trail make Butte the reigning champion for options. We were there on a cooler summer Saturday and we got to enjoy the town’s atmosphere, some of the nearby hiking trails, and a sweet-smelling rainstorm that rolled through overnight. I had the…
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Fact & Fiction Bookstore
Fact and Fiction in Missoula has a very elevated, artistic feel to it. The cool vibe is still irrestibily welcoming. If I’d been blindfolded and walked in without knowing where I was, I’d have guessed Missoula. Fact & Fiction has been around since 1986. (That’s almost as old as me!) The original store was on…
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Tumbleweed Bookstore and Cafe
Another stop on the Montana Bookstore Trail was Tumbleweed Bookstore and Café. After staying near Quake Lake in a beautiful campground and visiting Yellowstone National Park, we left through Gardiner. Of course, we stopped to check out Tumbleweed. We were there around lunchtime and I couldn’t pass up sandwiches named after local dogs. They even…