Posts tagged bookshops
Reading the Seasons
Reading the Seasons

For me, reading has always had a synaesthetic quality. Just as some people can taste music or feel smells like a sensation on their skin, I experience books through the colours and properties of seasons. … Perhaps you don’t have this problem. Actually, I hope you don’t. It’s annoying, inconvenient and leaves piles of books scattered around my room waiting for the perfect moment to be read. However, if you recognise this pattern in your own reading life, then here are my suggestions (both practical and emotional) on how to read for the seasons. 

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Ellen Ormesherseasons, fall, autumn, spring, winter, summer, reading, reading recommendations, recommended reading, books, booklovers, bookshops, Sally Rooney, Sophie Mackintosh, Amy Liptrot, Helena Attlee and Margaret Atwood, Waugh, Woolf, Derek Jarman, June Jordan, Deborah Levy, Denise Riley, Anita Brookner, Eimear McBride, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Donna Tartt, Angela Carter, Ottessa Moshfegh, Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, Kathrine Sowerby, Allan Cameron, Heather Richardson, Mari Saat, Lars Sund, Laura Tansley, Micaela Maftei
Bookshop Day
Bookshop Day

In the age of fast food, digital downloads and instant gratification, the real allure of bookshops is the space to slow down. Entering a bookshop, rifling the shelves, and settling down between pages for however long is an act of trust; where you choose to lose yourself for a little while speaks volumes. Eloise Hendy talks bookshops and lists her Top 5.

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