It’s National Bookshop Day this Saturday, the 11th of August, and bookshops across Australia will be celebrating in all sorts of bookish ways. If you’re in Sydney, come along to Shearer’s Bookshop in Norton Street, Leichhardt, where they’ll be celebrating classic children’s literature with games, storytelling and a ‘Dress As Your Favourite Classic Children’s Literature Character’ competition. I’ll be there from 11am, reading and signing books, so come and say hello! (I will probably be dressed as Michelle Cooper, rather than a Classic Character, so I should be easy to recognise.)
Hope you had a good day at Shearers’s! I just went and spent money at Notions Unlimited, a sec fic bookshop in Chelsea, one f Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, People were in there playing D and D and offered me cheese cake. I bought a couple f small press books and a yummy Gae of Thrines cookbook. 🙂
Sigh! Typos galore in the above! That was a spec fic book shop, a couple of books and a Game of Thrones cookbook.
It was a fun day, and it sounds like you had a great day, too! They had the Queen of Hearts handing round jam tarts at Shearer’s (though your cheesecake sounds delicious, as well). I also heard about a Harry Potter tea party at Better Read Than Dead bookshop in Newtown, featuring butterbeer and chocolate ‘cockroach’ clusters.