{"id":408582,"date":"2026-09-23T20:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408582\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:57","slug":"new-st-pete-book-store-and-community-space-to-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408582\/","title":{"rendered":"New St. Pete book store and community space to debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you build it, they will come.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the idea behind Reverie Room, a neighborhood bookshop and community space opening next week for bibliophiles to gather, gab and geek out over literature.<\/p>\n

Rather than a traditional shop where customers might grab-and-go with their purchases, Reverie Room, located at 655 31st Street S., is designed to encourage people to commune and converse, and ultimately, create community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Owner Nichole Coronado in the Romance Room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally, hopefully, people come and hang out,\u201d said owner Nichole Coronado. \u201cI love having people connect. I want people to\u00a0 either bring their friends or meet new people and come make a space together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shop will be open afternoons until the early evenings, with hours to change depending on customer traffic. For now, founder Nichole Coronado plans on welcoming readers from 2 to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n

Reverie will host traditional bookstore programming like book clubs and discussions, but Coronado also has dreams of including a more diverse set of offerings \u2013 think genre-bending events like collaborations with pilates studios, workshops on financial literacy with local experts, and audiobook walking clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want people to either start book clubs or have their book clubs here. I want to do events where people can come together and make friends,\u201d she said..\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to have local business people too, maybe do a financial literacy class or things like that, to help people \u2014 besides just fitness-wise, help their minds a little bit too.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a giant bar greeting you upon arrival, inviting you to stick around, maybe order another round (local beer and curated wine will be on the menu once licensing is sorted out) and read\u00a0<\/p>\n

The space is also huge. At 2,000 square feet, Reverie Room allows you to lose yourself in the enormity of the shop, a good book \u2026 or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to being an avid reader, Coronado is also aesthetically-inclined. She designed and furnished all the rooms at Reverie, and each space is infused with her creativity and personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The children\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

The kids\u2019 room is medieval fantasy-themed and\u00a0 filled with shelves upon shelves of children\u2019s books for all ages. There\u2019s plush rug adorned with princesses, dragons, and knights, a kid-size table, and cushy seating for little ones to read on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The adjacent room hosts the shop\u2019s nonfiction, sci-fi and horror collection and features nautical adventure decor. There\u2019s a pelican as an homage to St. Pete, a pirate ship for Tampa, and an anchor, the symbol for the sorority of which Coronado was a member in college.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cRomance Room\u201d hosts the romance and young adult fiction inventory. A floral display built by Coronado\u2019s mom adorns the space as does a Beauty and the Beast flower cloche. Rounding out the decor is a velvety, regal couch under a pink-neon sign that reads \u201cLost in Reverie,\u201d inviting people to cozy up to their book and maybe snap a picture while they\u2019re at it.<\/p>\n

The Speakeasy room is hidden behind a bookcase door, allowing people to partition the space for private events and rentals. The room has ample seating and an open-formatting to facilitate gathering and connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With a selection ranging from cardboard kids\u2019 books to young adult romance fantasy to dystopic feminist novels, Coronado aims to appeal to a wide range of reader interests and identities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to make sure that everyone\u2019s being represented,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t realize you\u2019re not represented until you actually see yourself represented. And so for me, it was very important to do that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI did try my best to make sure I was doing a diverse selection of books and not just \u2026 one side of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you build it, they will come.\u00a0 That\u2019s the idea behind Reverie Room, a neighborhood bookshop and community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-408582","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\/408582","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=408582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}