Quirky events, author readings, competitions and fun times for bookshop lovers
This year’s NZ
Bookshop Day – Your Place, Your Bookshop to
be held on Saturday, 29 October promises
to be a cracker of a day for all Kiwis who enjoy their local bookshops.
Celebrating the
vibrancy and uniqueness, and the vital role they play in our communities, 170 bookshops
from Whangarei to Invercargill will hold special – and quirky – events, author
readings, competitions and draws, as well as delightfully fun times for readers
and booklovers of all ages and stages.
Booksellers NZ’s
chief executive Lincoln Gould says,” Our inaugural NZ Bookshop Day last year was an enormous success for one
particular reason. It really did explode the myth that the bricks and mortar
bookstores in communities up and down New Zealand would soon be as extinct as
the moa.
“Those naysayers were absolutely wrong. Throughout the country, book
lovers flocked to their local stores to engage in readings, games and to enjoy
the sheer celebration of reading for pleasure. The efforts by bookshops and
publishers to showcase books of all genres, helped often by authors and
celebrities and, in one case, a horse attracted many more readers than even we
had anticipated.
“We’re thrilled that so many bookshops are working hard to engage with
their communities to make it a blockbuster NZ Bookshop Day 2016.”
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