Don’t we all, as avid readers, love the notion of living in a bookstore? This story is eminently sigh-worthy, a lovely, lovely tale of the lives changed and loves found in a bookshop founded years before by the man who’s the center of the story, even if
Read more →This book is all the rage right now, and I can see why. I’m not a big murder mystery fan and this book is that…but it’s so very much more. Kya is a thoroughly unique protagonist, and the gorgeous prose brings to life the marshes every
Read more →An oldie but a goodie…Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a perennial favorite, and though I love all her work, her Chicago Stars series is one of my faves, filled with keepers that reside on my keeper shelves and are always good for a re-read. She routinely makes me
Read more →This book is as powerful–maybe more so–than when I first read it some years back. The pain, the beauty, the gorgeous prose, the characters who leap to life…a very rare few characters are as unforgettable, heart-breaking and inspiring as Victoria Jones. It’s one of the books that
Read more →Shelby is a character, by turns tragic and eccentric and touching, I’ll never forget. A remarkable story of a character I wasn’t at all sure would get her happy ending (her characters sometimes don’t!) but I was rooting for her and her merry cast of characters, every
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