The Bookshop Blog
It’s a big wide world of books, and I love them!
The Known World Bookshop has books on just about any subject imaginable, and as an avid reader, I usually have more than one selection at a time on my reading list.
At any give time there is a toppling tower of books by the bed – classics I’ve meant to read for ages, novels that have been recommended by customers, books that I’ve read reviews on by critics I respect.
At the moment I’m reading “A Strangeness in My Mind”, by the Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. How could you resist a novel with a title like that?
Below are some thoughts on some of my recent reads, plus some of the stories behind the quirky items you will find throughout the shop.
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What are stories?
What are stories? What is fiction?
I’ve recently read, and was hugely inspired by, the historian/philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens – a Brief History of Humankind. -
A Strangeness in My Mind
Review of Turkish Nobel-Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind, set in late 20th century Istanbul, during civic upheaval and urban growth.
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A bugle a ladder and a Salvadore Dali
As well as new books, this week I acquired a bugle, which would look great on the character perched on my flying camel. What could go wrong?
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Retailopolis
Peter and I went to a shopping centre. As a rule, I would rather have my teeth extracted without anaesthetic than visit one of these concrete conglomerates…
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Here we go
The first blog on my new, shiny website. The truth is, I’ve resisted going down the many twisting tortuous alleyways of the social media yellow brick road…
