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Shelfie Saturday featuring my favourite section at work at @rossiter_books. I wish my own bookshelves looked this good! 😍📚 I may have treated myself to one of these books today. Can you guess which one? 😉 I’ve reached the end of my working week with another lovely Saturday in the bookshop. Now I’m off out for dinner, so will look forward to catching up on posts tomorrow! I’m so behind! 😬 Have a great weekend, everyone!

Kelsey’s summer should have been paradise - a holiday on Beverly Island, complete with sun drenched beaches and gorgeous lifeguards. But Kelsey’s dream holiday quickly turns into a nightmare. It starts with the note from a girl who’s missing. Then there’s the crazy man in the lighthouse with his mysterious warnings. And there have been a number of suspicious drownings... At least she has the lifeguards around to protect her... Poor Kelsey. Someone forgot to tell her that lifeguards don’t always like to save lives. 🌊 Flashback Friday and a #bookblastfromthepast to my childhood editions of Point Horror’s The Lifeguard and Baywatch books. This is a post especially for @bookishsteph1 who has posted her edition of The Lifeguard today, along with her Point Horror collection. I loved the Point Horror series when I was younger. They were so creepy yet also had a great mystery element to them. I still have my collection and would love to reread them some time. 🌊 With a title called The Lifeguard, how could I not include my Baywatch books?! This was one of my favourite tv shows growing up and had me dreaming of becoming a lifeguard for quite some time! 😂 The theme tune is still one of the best tv theme tunes ever and was also quite a club anthem back in my student days! The weather lately has been definitely Baywatch worthy and I would absolutely love a trip to the beach, especially with the temperatures set to soar to 35c next week! 😎☀️🌊👙⛱🏊🏻‍♀️ Were you a Baywatch fan and did you read the Point Horror series back in the day? Do you still have any of these books?

“Write down the good things about my life?” “Exactly.” “But what if...I can’t think of any?” If you’ve never seen a sad smile, you should’ve seen hers just then. “You will.” ✍🏻 Twenty one year Beth is in prison. For one hour every week, she sees her counsellor Erika. When Erika asks her to make a list of all the good things in her life, Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with her first foster father to the very first time she sniffed her baby’s head. ✍🏻 Writing her story through the list will require Beth to confront her crime and accept her actions in order to move forward. But what is The Bad Thing that Beth continually refers to? Is she really a bad person or does she deserve a chance to be good? ✍🏻 All the Good Things is a fantastic debut by Clare Fisher. It is a compelling read that highlights social issues in Britain such as education, class and the foster care system. Having previously had a foster sister, this book resonated so much with me and some of the circumstances in the story had uncanny parallels. The character of Beth is so well written in such a realistic way. So while at times she could be frustrating, I was still rooting for Beth to turn her life around, even though I already knew the outcome from the opening pages. For me, I felt that there was only one possibility for The Bad Thing and so it was no surprise at the final reveal. It is not in any way predictable though and it should come as a complete surprise to most readers. However, be prepared for an absolutely heartbreaking read. ✍🏻 Thank you so much to @dannii.elle.reads for gifting me this book last year. It was one of the books that @meetbookgirl had brought to the first @bookstagramhay Meet Up, but I had missed out on getting a copy, so I was delighted when Dannii gave me this book. I finally read it in May and absolutely loved it. I’ve tagged a few more of my Bookstagram buddies who should be happy to hear that I have read it at last and so now we can finally talk about it! ✍🏻 Have you read All The Good Things? If so, did you enjoy the weaving narration between the past and present? Do you enjoy books that tackle important issues?

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...” 📖 Wuthering Heights Wednesday...I am currently rereading Wuthering Heights for the #whreadalong200 hosted by @theartfulelle @literarianlife and myself. How is everyone getting along with the readalong? I am loving reading my favourite book again. I hadn’t read it since school and this is my battered and frequently highlighted edition from school. I have just reached my favourite quotes and I have such fond memories of learning these lines. Apart from Shakespeare, it was the first time the power of words really struck me and I completely fell in love with the book and Bronte’s writing. I certainly won’t be leaving it as long before I reread it again. I know it’s a book that seems to really divide people, but I still absolutely love it and I can’t wait for the readalong discussion at the end of the month! ✍🏻 Have you read Wuthering Heights and are you a fan?

TV Tuesday... 📺 Now that the tennis and football is over, I’m looking forward to watching some of the great new TV adaptations of books that started here in the U.K. last week. Top of my list is Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, which stars the fantastic Amy Adams. The reviews have been amazing so far and although I haven’t yet read the book, I can’t wait to dive into this series. Picnic At Hanging Rock is another series that looks great and is also another book high on my list ever since I heard @thebookboy rave about it! 📺 The one show that I have been glued to is The Handmaid’s Tale and Sunday’s episode was superb. Every episode is always excellent, but this one still has me thinking about it two days later. In a world where the US President is Donald Trump is a stark reality, Sunday’s episode couldn’t have been more timely with his visit to the U.K. last week. The episode (minor spoiler ahead!) saw Commander Waterford and his wife visit Canada for diplomatic talks, only to be met by a storm of angry protesters. Without going into too much detail, the Commander spoke about extraditing illegal immigrants and increasing border security during the diplomatic discussions, which had uncanny echoes of real life, as well as hinting at a worrying turn of events possibly to come in the show. A range of emotions swept over me during this episode and although I have only just reread the book in May, I now want to pick up the book again! The show is just so good and Elizabeth Moss is incredible in it. I was lucky enough to see her perform on Broadway years ago with William H. Macy in Speed-the-Plow and she was brilliant in it. It was during her Mad Men years and she really has continued to make great career choices ever since. 📺 There are now only four episodes left to air here in the U.K. and while it is difficult to avoid any spoilers online, I do recommend a great article online by The Guardian about Sunday’s episode. It echoes many of my sentiments and also has a wickedly humorous tone. In the meantime, I’m nervous yet excited to see what happens next! 📺 Are you watching The Handmaid’s Tale and did you see Sunday night’s episode?!

#glenjensjulychallenge -Week 3: Best Kiss 🎭 Act I, Scene V Romeo - “...Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged.” Juliet - “Then have my lips the sin that they have took.” Romeo - “Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.” Juliet - “You kiss by the book.” 🎭 Movie Monday...Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet was released in 1996 and cleverly updated William Shakespeare’s classic tale of star crossed lovers to Verona Beach in the US in the middle of gangland wars, while retaining the play’s original dialogue. The film’s modern setting and vibrant tone brought Shakespeare’s work to a whole new generation. 🎭 Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes played the titular roles, reciting Shakespeare’s words with perfect flair and emotion, ensuring that the audience had no difficulty in interpreting the text. The chemistry between the two actors was fantastic, right from the very first scene where their eyes meet through the fish tank. The momentum builds up until their stolen first kiss in the elevator to the stunning soundtrack and is an electrifying scene. 🎭 The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1997 for Best Art Direction and won four BAFTAs in 1998. The film was nominated for six MTV Movie Awards in 1997, including Best Kiss, with Claire Danes winning Best Female Performance. Danes was at the height of her career after being awarded a Golden Globe in 1995 for her amazing performance in My So Called Life and Romeo & Juliet would elevate her career even further. The film would see the beginning of Leo mania, which would catapult to a stratospheric level with the release of Titanic the following year. The film’s eclectic two soundtracks would also become hugely successful and featured Radiohead, Des’ree and The Cardigans. 🎭 The film is the highest grossing live-action William Shakespeare adaptation, proving that Shakespeare’s stories transcend time and remain just as relevant in a modern world. 🎭 P.S. A very happy birthday to my little sister @_lisaoshea who is a huge film fan like myself! It’s been fun introducing my lil sis to classics like Dirty Dancing, and Romeo + Juliet is definitely another one to add to the list of classics!☺️🎬💘

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