In honour of #LoveYourBookshopDay I present this totally-casual-not-at-all-awkward-or-posed pic of me after a very happy visit to my local bookshop, @dymocksglenelg, which also happens to be the bookshop where I worked a million years ago when I was a creative writing undergrad. They’re running a raffle with loads of bookish prizes up for grabs, and also have a fab selection of #LoveOzYA / #LoveOzNZ so if you’re in the Glenelg area, do stop in! 📚
I figured Love Your Bookshop Day was the perfect excuse to nab a few titles on my TBR and picked up IN THE DARK SPACES by @cally_black, THE NANCYS by R. W. R. McDonald and (for Frankie) WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak.
It was my turn to pick the book for our August book club and I settled on #Melmoth by Sarah Perry. I was intrigued by the Gothic hints in the blurb and, after reading her book The Essex Serpent, I wanted to see what Perry would do next, not because I loved that book but because I *almost* did. I thought it was brilliant in parts, but there was something lacking in the whole and I was left with a sense of unfulfilled promise. So I’m hoping that with her latest book I find that ‘something’ I wanted in her earlier work. I’ve only just started, so no spoilers, please! The opening pages are giving me all the Gothic tropes I love, but there’s still something in the prose that’s keeping me a little distant.
