Sunriver Books & Music

I love hanging out in Sunriver and just reading. A few years ago I stopped into the bookstore and it has become a must go to ever since. I don’t know her name but there is a lady in there who seems to know every book, and can give you her thoughts right down to specific character development. I can’t remember the book I read last month!
I don’t pack books for Sunriver vacations anymore, and make this place my first stop when I get there. A lot of local authors, and a large selection of books for such a small shop.

A nice little book store in sunriver. Not a ton of chairs to sit and read, but it had a nice atmosphere and friendly staff. Our kids found some books they were excited about. I also noticed they had a big selection of travel books, including some Bend & Portland centric books, which might be good for someone who is on vacation.

I can spend a week in Sunriver avoiding the Sunriver Village shopping area entirely, and be happy about it. But one afternoon I was arm-​twisted into dropping into the village for coffee, and ended up at Sunriver Books & Music.
About the music: Forget it. I think they had about 25 titles, mostly in the easy listening category. This is a bookstore, not a CD shop.
As a small bookstore, this place is fantastic. An amazingly solid selection of fiction and non-​fiction titles for a smallish space, displayed in a manner that ignores heavy emphasis of bestsellers and such, and seems to focus on what the proprietors think are good books for people to read. Noticeably absent was the typical stand of invective-​filled political diatribes that are on display somewhere near the entrance to every Barnes & Noble. (There’s something dispiriting about walking into a bookstore and having the first or second display of books that you encounter be a pile of hateful crap written by manipulative political hacks pandering to angry, humorless, mouth-​breathing morons.)
I picked up «A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World» by Tony Horwitz. It’s about the exploration and settlement of the Americas prior to the landing of the Pilgrims, the non-​event that our nation adopted as our creation myth and that we observe as the seed crystal of manifest destiny. The owner told me at the checkout stand that it was an entertaining and education read, and had been the pick of his book club earlier that summer. He was right.