Tidal Pages Ipswich

01/05/2025

NEW HOURS!

And it took me forever to decide on these, but here you go! Saturdays are a bit dicey so always check in here on Instagram before you head over! 📖🏀📖🏀📖

12/25/2024

🌊 See you next year, Ipswich! 🌊

12/23/2024

See you in the shop for those last-minute gifts and YES we do have gift cards!!! Merry merry, happy happy 😊🎄❄️❤️

12/20/2024

Puzzle restock! What else are you going to do during a 14-16 day holiday break?!

12/13/2024

Oh would you look at that, a book about your hobby. ✨

12/05/2024

A book and a little treat ❤️

12/01/2024

A gal can do anything for 24 days, can she not? See you in the shop all month long!

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️

11/14/2024

🎄ADVENT BOOKS🎄

Advent stories in twenty-four-and-a-half chapters ❤️

We have so many amazing holiday books coming your way soon, but you want to jump on these advent books! Each book is 150+ pages, with a story that takes you through the month of December. You read a chapter (just 2-3 pages!) each day of the month, and it’s such a charming way to count down to Christmas.

Each book also has ideas for holiday crafts, recipes, fun lists (how to say Merry Christmas in other languages, acts of kindness, etc) and so many more joyful Christmas activities.

I have just five copies of each, so stop into the shop or shoot me a message to hold a copy!

11/13/2024

December is going to be SO MUCH FUN! Please join us for one of our festive holiday events to celebrate the season.

Tea With Mrs. Claus: Mrs. Claus will be at Tidal Pages to take photos with children, autograph a special book for each child, and read a holiday story while enjoying tea and hot chocolate. After story time, children will write and decorate their letters to Santa, with help from Mrs. Claus and bookshop staff. Mrs. Claus has agreed to take the letters back to Santa at the North Pole... and a few days later children will receive a reply from Santa in their home mailbox!

Gingerbread House Decorating: Join us at Tidal Pages for an evening of sugary fun. This event is perfect for small groups of no more than five people. Gingerbread houses and all the fixings are included!

Sip & Shop | Blind Date With a Book: Grab your friends, and come spend an evening at Tidal Pages to create the perfect holiday gift: a Blind Date With a Book! Choose a group of books, wrap them in craft paper, write a few hints on the outside, and add special surprises. Your loved ones will have so much fun deciding what book to read next based on your clues! Choose a book for every month of the year, or just pick a few— it’s up to you! Wrapping materials included, plus you have the option to wrap yourself OR leave your purchases with us to wrap!

Space is very limited, so grab your tickets at
tidalpagesipswich.com/events

11/11/2024

We could not agree more!

Sundays are for road trips! Get in the car and come to Ipswich! Grab some brunch at Ipswich Inn: Bed and Breakfast Ipswich MA or Jetties Bagels then do some pre-holiday shopping at our cute downtown shops like Tidal Pages Ipswich book store, Betsy Frost Design Studio & Gallery, or AnnTiques Antiques. Stroll the River Walk or the trails at Appleton Farms. Then stop by our place for a flight and learn how we make mead. Lastly, grab lunch and the New England Patriots game with lunch at the Choate Bridge Pub!
A great Ipswich Day!

11/03/2024

October bestsellers, in order! Did you grab any of these last month? Also, I can’t stop posing books in front of our corner.

1. Tell Me Everything by
2. The Berry Pickers by
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by
4. Hot Mess
5. The God of the Woods by
6. Intermezzo by
7. James by Percival Everett

09/18/2024

What a delight to appear next to (who by the way dropped off the world’s best cookies at our grand opening) in this third grade Ipswich-centric alphabet wall. I’d say this Winthrop student got our logo just right! 🤯

09/10/2024

Come drop in on Sunday between 10 & 1! Hopefully we can figure out how to ring people by then 🫢

08/23/2024

Love this. You can’t replace the feeling of browsing a bookstore, feeling that pull toward a new title, picking up something new, and chatting about books in person with another human who loves books ❤️❤️❤️

Even though books make up a relatively small fraction of Amazon’s sales, they constitute more than half of all book purchases in the United States. The company offers something like 30 million different print titles. It owns AbeBooks, the leading site for rare and out-of-print books. And there are many other places online where you can buy books. So why does the world need bookstores?

Being able to browse in person one benefit; the level of customer service is another. “You will probably soon be able to chat online about your book interests with a bot, but a bot is not a person with green hair, a tattoo, and a sense of humor who might have some offbeat suggestions for you,” Louis Menand writes. Then there is what the scholar Janice Radway, adapting Walter Benjamin, calls the “auratic” quality of physical books—people don’t regard them as ordinary commodities. But the chief rationale offered for brick-and-mortar bookstores today is that they are community-building spaces. Booksellers “are practitioners of bibliotherapy,” Menand continues. “They introduce people to books that will help them overcome grief or minister to confusions about life choices or personal identity. . . . That is what it means to run a bookstore. The rewards are not just material. The bookstore survives by redefining itself.”

Menand writes about the value of independent bookstores in the online era: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8kOdMs

08/08/2024

ICYMI… I’m opening a bookshop in our little town! And WOW! I have been blown away by the response. Thank you for all of the positive vibes and well wishes. It truly means so much. I have so much to learn, but my family, friends and neighbors could not be more amazing as I take this gigantic leap. Tidal Pages (pun intended) will be open in Ipswich, MA from September to December in a temp space, at which time I’ll be on the hunt for a permanent location OR I’ll say, that was fun and now I’m done! Would love for you follow here and on Instagram! But I have to know, what are some special things that you’ve loved about a certain bookshop? What makes a bookshop a place you want to visit again and again? I’m all ears!