Medina for brunch, then MacLeod's Books — we each picked a book for the other

Medina is the obvious Vancouver brunch choice and it's obvious for good reason. The Belgian waffles are the thing to order and the lavender latte is not a gimmick. We've been enough times that the line doesn't bother us anymore — it moves and the wait is part of the ritual. After brunch we walked to MacLeod's Books on Pender, which is a proper used bookshop: floor-to-ceiling, slightly chaotic, the kind of place where you can spend an hour looking for nothing in particular. We each picked a book we thought the other should read without asking what they wanted. It's a small game that reveals a lot. Both books were read.