The Book Store at Golden Lake

located at the crossroads in Golden Lake on Lake Dore Road, across from the post office

Open from ten to six daily from Canada Day to Labour Day and every weekend from Easter to Thanksgiving, other times by chance or appointment

Over ten thousand titles.. from just $2
same-day search service
A member of ABE internet used book sellers association
I accept credit and debit cards

I've been in business since about nineteen eighty. The store gets better every year as I work out the bugs. There was a CBC radio call in show about 'my all-time favourite bookstore'and somebody called in and talked about the Bookstore in Golden Lake.

When I sent a pledge in to a local radio station, C.H.I.P., Radio Pontiac, they said that Golden Lake was "a dandy little town," and that the bookstore offered "one stop shopping for all your reading needs."

Proceeds from my give-away table go to the Volunteer Fire Fighters of Golden Lake.

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…everybody's had the fantasy
you have, admit it,
the bookstore, the kettle, the cat,
self-employed, in vacation land
with plenty of time to read
and when you're hungry read,
far better hungry
than nothing to read …

"Do you have poetry," asks the sunburnt man
in white shorts. "Rumi or Sappho? Burns
or Keats or Yeats?" "Why yes upstairs," I say.
He shakes his thighs, tight from cycling. "And classics?
Chaucer, Dante, Flaubert, Proust, James Joyce?"
"Yes," I say, "Yes I do, yes, all
the classics." Gold wires sprout at his neck.
"Some of my favourites," he adds, "are less well-known.
Li Po? James Hogg? Appuleius?" I fan
myself with paper. "The Golden Ass," I say.
"Oh! Might you have a Golden Ass?" he asks.
Blinding sunlight streams on the counter between us:
blank sheets of flame white from the sun.
He mounts the stairs to poetry. I pick up my pen.