Books set in a bookshop – IBW 2016
Independent Bookshop Week starts tomorrow and that means everyone really should go out and buy a book from an indie booksellers to support them. They do fantastic work and I’m never happier myself than when I’m in a bookshop. So to celebrate, from Sunday onwards we have competitions and lots of BAMB bags to give away! There’s even a bard or two hanging around in case you missed them the first time. A few ideas for some books to buy:
Veronica Henry – How to find love in a bookshop
You can read this as a really nice romance and an homage to all the work that booksellers do and the magic that one bookshop can bring to so many people. Or, like I did, you could see if you could find love in a bookshop by spending considerable time in a bookstore and seeing if you can find love for real. Haha but that’s another story. This book is so much more than a love affair with books, its real message is one of just how lots of people can make a difference in your life, how someone’s legacy can live on and how someone can have an impact on your life which can last for ever. It’s such a heartwarming book and it’s such a treat to read. Julius Nightingale, owner of the bookshop doesn’t even appear in the book, but the story of how he started it and what it came to mean will bring a tear to your eye!
The #Blogtour ends on Sunday right here with Veronica Henry – we’ve bought plenty of cake in ready.
Now for the Friday four:
The Bookshop on the Seine
The second book in the series which began in The Little bookshop on the corner so you should buy that as well as it’s set in a lovely little bookshop in Ashford, Connecticut. This one sees Sarah Smith go to work in a bookshop in Paris and well, that more than makes us think of Shakespeare and Co, the bookstore everyone needs to go to at least once in their life. For a kind of book pilgrimage of sorts. Just looking at the cover of this book makes you smile and immediately transports you to the quaint cobbled streets of Paris. Aah imagine reading this on the banks of the Seine itself?
The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
I love Jenny Colgan. She always brings a smile to my face. I only have to read one of her books and I’m smiling like a mad person. I swear sunshine shines from the pages of her novels. She brings all of this and more to her novels and this one in particular I just love as it makes you smile about why bookshops and independent bookshops – book buses no less – are very important. The woman in the book has a passion for all things books and so she takes a chance with a bookshop bus and drives it around the Scottish highlands.
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
There is a chapter on book smelling in this novel. Yes you read that right. Book smelling, book sniffing..whatever you want to call it, you can relive it here. Ah and lovely lines like this: “For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs and big cups of coffee or tea.” Enough said. Writing letters recommending books, book club across the miles, travelling to see your bookish friend…yes all very familiar and very realistic! A good read for IBW week.
The Little Paris bookshop
A book about books set across the whole of France – a love song to books everywhere. Magical. As well as the perfect title, this is a homage to booklovers everywhere. It is set on a book barge which makes its way from Paris all the way down France and to the south. It passes through many place so ideal for a booktrail but what I loved about it is the fact that you get to visit Cuisery, the town of books in France –
“There was room in Cuisery for anything remotely associated with literature. There was a doctor who specialised in literary schizophrenia. He was consulted by people whose alter ego was a reincarnation or Dostouesvsky….”
Any book that mentions a book boat, and calls it a Literary Apothecary. Well, I’m on board!
That’s just five for Friday for you. There’s loads more books set in the book world and books set in a bookshop – Books Set in a Bookshop – take a look here to find the book you’ll buy for IBW week.
Susan Booktrailer x
