{"id":187732,"date":"2026-03-11T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:51:09","slug":"new-bookstore-pages-and-perks-opening-this-summer-near-roser-park-in-south-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187732\/","title":{"rendered":"New bookstore Pages and Perks opening this summer near Roser Park in south St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Inside, a lounge area will welcome readers of all ages. Parents can enjoy beer, wine, or mocktails at a six-seat bar while children spend time in a kid-friendly section of the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Bottled mocktails will be provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/curiouselixirs.com\/blogs\/curious-elixirs-blog\/all-hail-adaptogens-plant-based-body-boosters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curious Elixirs<\/a>, which incorporates ingredients such as adaptogens, herbs, and mushrooms into its nonalcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Johnson says the bookstore is designed as a flexible gathering space that will host book clubs, game nights, book signings, local author events, poetry readings, and meetups for games like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cOur main focus is wanting to connect with the community. To help bring literacy back in a way, get people off of screens and more engaged in stories,\u201d said Ben Johnson, Kate\u2019s husband and the bookstore\u2019s co-owner. \u201cStories are all around us, and I feel like they&#8217;re kind of being lost because people aren&#8217;t connecting and engaging with books anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ahead of the storefront\u2019s debut this summer, Pages and Perks plans to attend markets and events around Tampa Bay, selling books and introducing the concept to the community ahead of its opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Customers will also be able to order books and audiobooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagesandperks.com\/#ZthuxW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">through the store\u2019s online shop.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside, a lounge area will welcome readers of all ages. Parents can enjoy beer, wine, or mocktails at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-187732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}