Books, Books and more Books!

I love books about books, bookshops and libraries. I also love bookish ornaments and Bookstagram - books-related Instagram. So I thought I'd share a selection of books about my favourite subject and a few ones on my TBR (To Be Read) pile.

MY FAVES!

The Reading Promise - 3,218 Nights of Reading with my Father by Alice Ozma
When Alice was 9 she and her father - a school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. They reached their goal and decided to continue reading. Alice's father went on to read to her for eight years. It's been a while since I read this book but I remember loving it!

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. It's a secondhand bookstore and his diary covers his day-to-day life from February 2014 to February 2015 - the customers he meets, the employees he has to share food, gathered from the skip, with, his friends and family. For my review of this book go to 
https://bookbloggernz.blogspot.co.nz/2018/01/the-diary-of-bookseller.html

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Absolutely adored this book! A.J.Fikry is a grumpy bookstore owner on an island which is hard to get to and only attracts visitors during the summer. His wife has died and his bookstore is not doing well. Then one day a small package is left in the bookstore for him and his life changes. For my review go to 
https://bookbloggernz.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/the-storied-life-of-ajfikry.html

Lost for Words by Stephanie Butland

The book tells the story of Loveday Cardew who works in a secondhand bookstore called Lost for Words in York. She prefers books to people. Really enjoyed this book. The chapters take us from the present day of 2016 and then to an incident in 2013 and to Loveday as a child in 1999. I thought it was going to be confusing. It wasn't. This book is very well written. It has strong and raw themes which can be hard to read about at times but I really wanted to read to the end to see how the mystery unfolded and was resolved. For more go to 
https://bookbloggernz.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/lost-for-words.html

Scribbles in the Margins - 50 Eternal Delights of Books by Daniel Gray
This books features 50 short essays of why we love books so much. A gorgeous book to own if you love books. For my review go to to
https://bookbloggernz.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/scribbles-in-margin-50-eternal-delights.html

The Little Shop of Happy Ever After by Jenny Colgan
When I read the synopsis of the book - a woman starting life over by buying a bus and selling books from it - I was intrigued. The main character Nina loves books, she buys a bus and turns it into a travelling bookshop. The first half of the book was great but then it got a bit too chick-lit for me.
For my review go to
https://bookbloggernz.blogspot.co.nz/2017/09/the-little-shop-of-happy-ever-after.html

SOME OF THE BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS ON MY EVER INCREASING TBR PILE (and some you may want to look out for if you haven't read them already)!

• Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
• The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
• The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
• My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
• The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch
• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
• The Bookshop in Rosemary Lane by Ellen Berry