The perfect recommendation: Marnie's Bookstore

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - It’s been a busy season for Marnie’s Books.

Marnie Andrews explained, “It's really fun to have a bookstore on Cortes Island. There's some amazing readers here. I get so many of my titles because friends come in and recommend what they've been reading. There's a lot of regular people, but I think a lot of people came west because of all the wildfires. It's been a great bookstore season, people are reading like crazy. They want real books.”

A young customer named Devran was perusing the contents of a nearby shelf, “It's very nice to have a bookstore on the island. I can walk in, look at the books and pick what I want. I also like that I can order books from here.”

Cortes Currents: How long have you been coming here?

Devran: “Since I moved here, which was around ten years ago.”

Another regular, local Naturopath Maureen Williams, added, “Marnie is a great curator of wonderful books. She has read everything on her shelf, and she always has the perfect recommendation when I'm looking for something special.”

So Cortes Currents asked Marnie, “Can you give us some recommendations on books to read?”