Next book Club meeting - 3pm - 29th June 2008
Book : Books, Baguettes, and Bedbugs
or (The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co)
As someone who spends their day dreaming of being a writer and their free time trying to be one, Mercer's book opened for me a little door of heaven. Life at Shakespeare & Co, though not easy by any means, really does sound like the kind of thing all writers/want-to-be-writers dream of experiencing. The crazy, insane and brilliant world of the owner, George, and the intertwining lives all all the come-and-go residents, are all written with such clarity and warmth that it's as though you're browsing through the books in the shop yourself and ear-wigging conversations. It's not rose-tinted glasses by any means, and it's very apparent that to survive at S&C requires more than a little ingenuity and bending of the rules. But it's obviously a place that not only offers sanctuary but a chance to grow and discover. Mercer has given me a little look through the window of S&C and now all I want to do is stroll in through the front door, roll my sleeping bag out among its shelves of books, and stay for a while...