Clear your diary for tomorrow, because it is National Bookshop Day! Time to head out to your favourite independent bookshop and take home that book you have been coveting.
Me, I will be in Melbourne, so I will be dropping in to the mighty Collected Works, Australia’s only poetry & ideas bookshop, run by Kris Hemensley. Not exactly sure what book will be coming home, but rest assured, Collected Works will offer much choice!
National Bookshop Day is an important reminder to support your local independent and the physical media of ‘the book’. We live in a time when technology is rapidly advancing and the future of the book as we know (or is that already, knew) it, is increasingly fragile, so if you want books and bookshops around in the distant future, make sure you make yourself known to one tomorrow (and then regularly thereafter).
Would love to hear which bookshop you visit and what book you take home… so drop me a comment!
Avid Reader is my local (and favourite), but I think I’ll be heading to Riverbend to finally pick up a copy of Julie’s new poetry collection
If it’s not there Carly, shoot me an email and I will fix you up with a copy online! Hope life is kickin’ along wonderfully, G
Shall do
I’ve bought all of Julie’s books at Riverbend. I love that they love supporting poetry. All is well at my end – hope you’re all rugged up on this blustery night 
Rugged up and ready to relax… and find the lights of Friday… Happy Bookshop Day for tomorrow, G
Back at you, matie. Have a super weekend.
Great post Graham, I agree, visiting a bookstore in person, aside from the aesthetic of the experience, is an important action for booklovers. I’d love to be in Melb to visit Kris, but I’ll head down to my local independent store and find something great