一本書店 a Book a Place (季節午餐請先預約)

《A unique bookstore in Hualien》 My local tour guide cum driver shared an article on this bookstore - 一本書店 as she knows I enjoy visiting bookstores and reading books. After successfully battled cancer at late 40s, owner - Ms. Miru and her husband moved their family from Taichung to Hualien. At the same time, they relocated their bookstore to Hualien to start afresh and to fulfil her lifetime goal. Her life motto is "Life is abundance so long as we have books and food." 一本書店 is an independent bookstore located in a quiet alley and is a revamped old house. The bookstore is decorated with small handwritten notes and antedots by Ms. Miru journaling her thinking, books recommendations and etc. Bookshop is quiet, have a good spread of chinese books across various genres and you can spend hours inside if you love books. There is a minimum spend of ntd100 which can be easily used either by purchasing books, drinks, handmade desserts or daily meals specials. If your book purchases exceed ntd2000, they can help you to deliver within Taiwan or overseas (postage fees applies). I was lucky enough to met Ms. Miru and had a chat with her. My friend jokingly asked her for a book recommendation after sharing her problems. To our surprise, she told us it is a common qns she encountered and we are imspired by the advices Ms. Miru gave as they are carefully thought of and to the point. Talking to her is like reading a good book. And through her, I truly understand that reading can build up your knowledge and shape your personality and thoughts. Owner Ms. Miru intend to move back to Taichung by mid this year or end of this year, location TBA. Additionally, just wish to share another reason of posting such a long review. The owner had accidentally uncharged me for my books postage to SG (I believed she may have used express service due to chinese new years as the books arrived before I touched down in SG). They kindly omitted this info but I realized it myself when I was looking at the postage tracking receipt. I offered to pay the balance and they told me since it is their mistake, I can pay when I visit them the next time (which could means never for some tourists 😱). I handed the money to my Hualien good friend to help pass to the owner but just wanted to share that I am really touched. Tip: Please check their Facebook Page for latest update on operating days and hours. In Hualien, it is quite common that actual operating days and hours differ from Google Map. If shop have FB page, check that. If not give them a call before going. You will need to Facebook private message them for meal reservation. =) Please also note that no photography allowed inside the shop.

CoZy and warm

Such a lovely little bookstore + café! We stumbled on it while wandering around and wasting some time in Hualien before our scheduled train, and I'm so glad we did! It's in a residential neighborhood with lots of narrow little streets. There are a few tables for single and more people throughout the shop, and we had refreshing fruit lemonade and yoghurt with nuts and brown sugar. The book selection looked great as well, mostly in Chinese though.

參加古殿樂藏王老師主持的「大濛時代的聲音聆賞體驗會」 周日午后，沐浴在一本書店，聆聽50、60年代的台語歌曲，台語電影的發展曾經是聯合國認證全世界第三大影音媒體出口國，令人難以置信但卻是事實。只可惜後來政策上在內部遭到台北政府全面打壓台語，在外部因為退出聯合國失去國際身分證而處處受到北京政府打壓。「毋甘願的電影史--曾經 台灣有個好萊塢」只能在書裡看到了！

久違了，離開店後忍不住熱淚盈眶，真太想念你們。這些年自己也經歷許多，深知一切都屬不易，但一本書店始終給人們能量與愛，我們不要幾年為期，一直一直經營下去。香蕉那個簡直無敵，Miru是最棒的🥰🥰🥰