Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say. 😊📚

Thanks! There was so much on the shelves I wish I couple have captured it all. Hope you pick up some good new reads from ones highlighted here! 📚

Just say you can't read, man.

And I own Playground, just have to finish Creation Lake then into Playground. Powers is one of my favorite authors rn.

Oh, I didn't realise that! What a literary power couple!

@@EricKarlAnderson They really are

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Thanks so much! That's very kind of you to say and it was a delight to meet you at the event. Not awkward at all. 😊📚

I loved Hulme’s novel! 😊📚

That’s impressive!

My pleasure! It gets very busy in Borough Market but such a great variety of food.

Nice! 📚 I need to read Paul Scott at some point.

Thanks so much! 😊

Thank you! I just read Hotel du Lac for the first time recently and really enjoyed it.

@ Yes... “Hotel Du Lac” by Anita Brookner is a wonderful read. I am sure you will enjoy “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Livelyas well...📖 Thank you for your reply.

@@alisonjordan Oh, I should have said, I read Moon Tiger many years ago and loved it as well.

Thank you! Glad you agree about Matar's novel.

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Thanks so much! And thank you for watching. 😊📚

Glad you'll be able to visit the shop. It's such a pleasure to browse!

Thank you! I agree, there should be a permanent Booker Library display and shop somewhere.

Which are your favourites?

@emmanuelolaoluwa1346 God of Small Things, Midnight Children, Blind Assassin, Vernon God Little, Sacred Hunger, Schindler's Ark, and many more

Thanks so much! I feel very lucky to live here.

Haha! I didn't even realise I was saying that at first. It wouldn't take long to count up how many Booker Prizes I've won. 😅

Thank you!

Thank you and sorry to hear you won't be able to see it in person.

Oh I didn’t know that! I thought it would be since they have lifts. I’m sorry to hear that and thanks for letting me know.

@@EricKarlAnderson the store have a very old and rather small platform lift at the entrance that doesn't work for most chairs. They also have a service entrance but this doesn't feel right to me and have turned them down. I'm overexplaining! I very much enjoy your videos and looking forward to more!

@@Louhicky It's good to know and I hope improvements are made, thank you!

Thank you! 📚

Yes! I’m glad you also feel so strongly about this brilliant book.

I know she's celebrated as a novelist, essayist, and diarist but, to me, she is first and foremost a poet! I believe she's a greater poet than Dylan Thomas and I LOVE Dylan!

Here are a couple of my pieces::::::: some inebriated seance subject: you're here My words have been waiting for you; to banish the nearness of your absence with mysterious, flickering streams flung in a tug of invitation toward your touch; a magnetic emergence of pools from humdrum to honey, a smack of seas crashing openly, reverently, melting in a soft, solemn embrace. It’s so calm within this bond, this new world slung from tentative dreams you eye now in one moment forever. It’s just my say of waying “thank you.” Let’s remain here a little bit longer . . . •°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°• visionless dusk The drumbeat detonates the sung gushed tune I once in dreams did dream; Of dancing, candied promenades, festive as jewels and drunk as hearts wrapped up in starlit hues. The swan song woke and winged its noose In a death delivering caul; with vampiric plumes bled out the night as I gasped in trauma's claws. I saw constructions of infinite, catapulted catastrophes exalted and cruelty bred; quarries sunk in sinkhole sarcophagi; hegemonic vestries all dead with echoes of death. No one knows what nothingness awaits in nothing's chasmic clime. Such superb chagrin; such unjust painted, painful mimes from emptiness derived.