The Bookshop: The Gate of Angels ; The Blue Flower | 
I went book swap shopping today at my favorite indie bookshop in Hove. I had so much fun browsing and picked up my fave free book mag and a new loyalty card ☺️ Just need to finish buying chocolate now! So much fun buying for fellow book lovers! #littlechristmasswap #jolabokaflodswap #bestof2021swap
pickI‘ve been missing literary fiction. I haven‘t had the time or energy to read anything other than serial killer fiction. I woke up this morning so excited for Independent Bookstore Day so I decided to pluck this slim novella from my shelves. I found it delightful and was reminded of what I love about the genre.
A walk across Hackney Marshes to the smallest little bookstore, where I had my exclusive 15 minutes - just for me! There are some small upsides to a pandemic!
But courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.
She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.
Some books I've picked to have to choose from for #Deweys24HourReadathon
I just wanted some short books to try to get through some quickly.
#readathon
so-soJust spent about 90 minutes watching The Bookshop movie with Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson. So, so disappointed in the ending! I can handle sad endings, but Patricia Clarkson‘s character *needed* her comeuppance! Still mad about it!
Spent a lovely time chatting to the bookseller ( the vicars wife!) and browsing the shelves. Penelope Fitzgerald worked in a bookshop opposite here ( no longer a book shop) and used her time there to write The Bookshop.
so-soBook was meh 😐
It was really short, with no real conflict resolution, with some sorry characters. But at least it was original and not twee.
Hoping the film has a more satisfying ending and more character development.
So, my dog ate my book today. 😡
not a person to trust...
so true ~ and of the feeling of accomplishment after the test is over!
Sounds like fun to me!
chapter 1 page 7 ~ reading this book for the 2nd time after having also watched the movie helps me focus on the foreshadowing.
today's book 📖 mail 📪 ~ one for me & one for my #MysteryMessageSwap partner
Ugh, I have to go peopling now for the whole evening... It‘s my own leaving do from work so I can‘t really get out of it! 🤣
So I thought I‘d visit a bookshop on the way to stroke some books and make me feel better!
I had a little time to kill before I met up with my friend.... so I braved the walk, in this miserable weather, to my favorite bookshop... Daunts in Marylebone..... this place is just heavenly 💕
I had to go back to the car and get another dollar to pay for my stack this week at our local “Recycled Reader”. Sometimes you hit the jackpot!
Need a break from the world. Bye, see you in about 150 pages.
"From long habit, Mrs Gamart rejected the idea that her husband might be necessary for anything." ?
so-soThere isn't any reason I should not have liked this book. Great premise - a woman opens a bookshop in a town that doesn't have one, there is a ghost in the building, she has a charming little girl who comes in to help her. It was all there, but I didn't love it.
What a delightful movie! A bit anticlimactic at the end. I'm actually interested in reading the book to see if it provides any further insight.
pickStory set in the little English village after the war is about the middle aged woman who is trying to open the bookshop, and this idea leads to many troubles for her. Sweet and short, with some tragic-comical moments and witty observations. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Booked2019 #RemindsYouOfYourHappyPlace
I‘ve got a miserable chest infection and head cold ( in sympathy with @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks !). Struggling to look at books and print, so giving in - cuddled with blanket, 2 cats and a movie.
While I was napping today to prepare for my night shift, my husband ran errands with the boys. Their first stop was our local library. I had requested this movie a couple of months ago after reading the book but had no idea that they had purchased it. My only sorrow comes from the fact that I can't watch it until tomorrow.
Any other Littens feel like this?? #introvert #meandmybooks
@biblio_ginger caught me catching her reading and coloring at our bookshop's Read-In for #24in48 😍📚🎧. #audiobooks #coloring
The young one wanted to go fishing. She‘s fishes I read. #winterstormhaha #texaswinters
#CurrentRead — I love Penelope Fitzgerald‘s style 💜💜💜
Now this is what I call a bookshop! Although my ever-sensible husband was worried about how they get insurance with a real fire and a lot of vintage books! 😁
“The weather was curious, and reminded her of the day she saw the flying heron trying to swallow the eel.”
Absolutely heartbreaking to read how an entire town turned against Florence. I can't imagine a life without books.
@Hooked_on_books made me this amazing, beautiful, intricate crossed stitch with beads! Isn‘t is lovely?! What a touching, special gift. Thank you Holly, it‘s really a treasure.
Love this book! I've discovered a new to me author!
panDefinitely not for me. I don't mind when books don't have a happy ending, or when the ending isn't wrapped up in a neat bow. But to have the main character's life completely go to pieces in the last few pages is lazy and unnecessary.
so-soI didn‘t hate this but didn‘t really like it either. Quiet, but not in an intimate, moving way. It was just too cold and distant to feel any attachment or investment. Not much plot, few likable characters, and not real sense of hope or anyone getting their just desserts. Just kind of sad and blah.
One bonus is that it‘s short and could be read in a day.
Well, this did not end as I expected.
Had a lovely day in Rochester today and of course we stopped off in here! 😍 (apologises for my husband‘s stupid pose, he refused to move out of the way for me to get a nice photo! 🙄)
so-soThis one is about human nature and not so much books or a bookstore. Social hierarchy, subtle bullying, and the machinations of others derail a dream for a widow who just wants to provide her town with a bookstore and make use of a building that‘s been empty and abandoned for ages. Her one real ally dies, and social pressure wins.
#hoopla
Shoutout to my favourite bookshop in the world. The English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden. It‘s so well stocked, you feel like you‘ll find every book you ever wanted in there. I really wish, I could just sit there and read and never leave again.
