Liz Cooksey of Portland, Oregon, fondly remembers two bookstores with clever names: The Novel Experience of San Luis Obispo, California, and the Title Wave, which sold discounted materials retired from the Multnomah County Library. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “More Clever Bookstore Names”
Following up on our conversation about clever and ingenious names for independent bookstores,
We heard from Liz Cooksey in Portland, Oregon, who wrote to us about the novel experience. That’s a store in San Luis Obispo where she spent her middle youth and early adult years. And she added that in Portland, the Multnomah Public Library had a used bookstore called Tidal Wave. Tidal Wave.
I love that. Tidal Wave. T-I-T-L-E. Oh, good. Good, good, good. Book people are always so clever, aren’t they?
Yeah. I was thinking maybe given the waterfalls there, it would be a pun on something with waterfalls. I don’t know. Truer Falls. Truer Falls. Yes.
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