05 Books About Books and Askew Creek Co-operative Book Shop

Meet Me In The Stacks

English - June 29, 2021 23:24 - 38 minutes - 44.3 MB
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Brace yourself...this one is pretty book-ish.

Books about books... Metabooks? Bibliomemoirs? Reading about reading? In Talk Bookish to Me Casey tells us about some books about some other books.

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Victorian and the Romantic by Nell Stevens My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim (graphic novel) Book Love by Debbie Tung (comic/graphic novel) A Girl Walks Into A Book by Miranda Pennington Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading by Lucy Mangan Barking with the Big Dogs by Natalie Babbitt

Learn all about the Askew Creek Book Shop with Cowichan librarian, Kendra, as she talks to co-op members Diane Gallagher and Suzanne Anderson! Diane Gallagher can be found on her website, including info on her new book The Bastard of Saint Geneva. Suzanne Anderson is a writer, publisher, book coach and copy editor and can be found on her website called “The Self Publishing Expert”.

The co-operative book shop was started up in June of 2020 (when everyone thought COVID might be over) and has just closed as of May 30, 2021. You can find the co-operative on Facebook under their new name of An Island of Books.