Plain and simple, this book is about the love of reading and the joy of giving it to others. Helen McGill was convinced by her brother to abandon life in the city and join him on a rural farm. They were happy then she remembers, until her brother decided to write a book about their experience and ...
I don't even know what to day about this. It was fantastic. It seems I say that about a lot of my reads, but I guess I just have good taste!Helen, the protagonist is sick of her brother the Andrew. He's living the life of a farmer when suddenly he gets it into his head to write a book, which of cour...
Christopher Morley’s Parnassus on Wheels is a delightful novella about two oddballs who fall in love over books and light adventure in the early twentieth century. It’s a perfect book for bibliophiles, especially if they want something that has a happy ending (unlike my beloved The Storied Life of A...
Oh how I didn't like this book. I should have DNF'd it, but it was called The Haunted Bookshop! I'd have thought it impossible for any book with that title to be so disappointing. Where to start... the characters - the two main characters - are each in their own way incredibly irritating. Roge...
Charming, simply charming! I don’t believe in all my readings over the years I missed this author. I’m totally in love with this short and sweet gem of a novella, published in 1917, almost a hundred years ago. I’m going to read more of Morley. I’m definitely reading the sequel – The Haunted Bookshop...
Cross-posted on Soapboxing.net1940 edition of Leaves of Grass which contains illustrations from Lewis C. Daniel and an introduction by [a:Christopher Morley|30802|Christopher Morley|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1199111805p2/30802.jpg]. I believe the illustrations are from 1928.She re...
I seem to be the only person to like Morley's first book, [b:Parnassus on Wheels|1001312|Parnassus on Wheels|Christopher Morley|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1280197135s/1001312.jpg|847161], better than the sequel. I think it was mainly that I enjoyed Helen as a POV character better tha...
This book is a follow up to Morley's Parnassus on Wheels. Here rather than a traveling bookshop, the setting is a bricks and mortar shop in Brooklyn. I was definitely disappointed with this second book, starring the same characters. Where the first book made no mention of WWI, this book beat me over...
This book was written in 1917. WWI was in full swing but this gentle novel makes no mention of it. Perhaps the author wanted to give his audience a way to escape the violence and horror they were dealing with. The biggest worries in this book were hobos and light rain. It worked for me. It was a coz...
Not as smooth or clever as Morley's later writing, but very sweet and fun!Come on, what book lover could hate a short novel about driving around in a horse-drawn wagon bringing books to the bookless?
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