I feel like a bad reader for only ambiguously loving this book! This feels like one of those "there are two kinds of people" books, and I'm so much less cool for not being a part of the cult following.Which is not to say I didn't appreciate the charm of this book. It is very charming! Just: I was pu...
This was the first time I’d ever taken Amazon.com up on one of its book recommendations. Privy to my reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (by spying), the folks at Amazon tried to hook me up with this book. I obligingly forgave the spying, fell for their gimmick, and was totally...
I read this with a buddy for a challenge she chose it as it fit the criteria and I just went along with it because the story sounded familiar and it was short. I'm so glad that I read it, it was such a good story that took part in the form of letters spanning 20 years. I listened to this but would d...
"I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages some one long gone has called my attention to." as stated in a letter from Helene Hanff to Frank Doel.So said Helene Hanff author of this little book in the f...
Absolutely delicious. I must get my own copy. Preferably from a used bookseller. Better yet, from a bookseller in London.I've known of the title for years and years, but didn't know anything about it other than the title until quite recently. After a year-long delay/lost book/mix-up with getting...
This book has been on my to-read list for quite some time, and I just finally got around to checking it out from the library. (Published in the 70s, it's not even available on Kindle.) About three pages in, I realized I'd seen the movie, with a very young Anthony Hopkins and possibly Vanessa Redgrav...
Really interesting true story about books told through the correspondence of a young woman in NYC and a bookshop in London. The story spans 20 years, from 1949 to 1969. Helene Hanff starts out as a young woman living in a studio apt whose love of books has lead her to seek out beautiful used editio...
Utterly charming. Made me terribly miss the days of snail-mail. I really, really wish Helene could have visited the store in London and met Frank - he seemed like an amazing person. If only all book sellers these days were as passionate about books and their customers as he was (For nearly twenty ye...
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