{"id":9083,"date":"2012-07-31T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2017-01-07T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T20:05:31","slug":"bikini-beach-books-in-gordons-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/bikini-beach-books-in-gordons-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikini Beach Books in Gordon’s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sunday
\n29 July
\n2012<\/div>\n

The first and last time I visited Gordon’s Bay’s Bikini Beach Books – an old beachfront house overflowing with books – was around 2 years ago, so I figured a revisit was long overdue…<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong> I’ve been getting loads of random emails asking me about books…to clarify for anyone who’s uncertain: I’m not affiliated with this book shop in any way<\/strong>, I just like visiting it! Please stop mailing me about books you want me to send you…thanks!<\/p>\n

\"Bikini<\/a><\/p>\n

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I think most people would agree that the place is pretty amazing, especially if you like books; outside are boxes with old books priced at next to nothing and inside are stacks, piles, tables and shelves full of every kind of book imaginable (as well as some odd decorative things, like shells…).<\/p>\n

\"Bikini<\/a>\u00a0 \"shell\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They’re sorta grouped by genre (like a room corner dedicated to travel) and language (everything from Russian to Welsh with many, many German titles) but for the most part, the general fiction is loosely alphabetised and spread out over each room of the house. This makes finding something specific pretty tricky but allows all kinds of weird and wonderful things to easily find you…<\/p>\n

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There are some new books, but most are second-hand, meaning some contain traces of their previous owners – Chris<\/a> and I were mildly alarmed at the number of Dianetics<\/em> books on display and then totally surprised to see the random one he picked up contained a creepy photo of what we can only assume to be a sleeping scientologist…<\/p>\n

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Also concerning was that ‘nocturne romance’ gets its own dedicated shelf (fittingly propped up by a mighty purple tower of Mills & Boon<\/em>) but perhaps more worrying is that it contained just a few Twilight<\/em> books and the rest were all shameless ripoffs.<\/p>\n\n\t\t