TITLE: The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century AUTHOR: Paul Collins DATE PUBLISHED: 2014 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-368-3 _____________________________________ Tenth century Europe may have been a chaotic mess, but Paul Collin...
This was both what I was hoping for and not quite what I wanted. I've wanted to go to the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales since I first heard of it several years ago; I want to spend a week there just wandering around and buying books like a sugar addict in a candy shop. Sixpence House is a book abou...
I think lots of people would like this book/audiobobok. Both the murder itself and what the tabloids did with this story are the two main themes. The book is non-fiction but reads as a novel. However, this is a double-edged sword. The press turned the murder/crime/trial events into pure sensationali...
Very interesting read about a man who decides to pack up his family and move to Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books"! 1,500 people and 40 bookstores! Sounds like a dream to me! Excellent memoir! Not all about books, but it delves into their day to day adventures... Pick this one up! Highly recommended!
This purports to be a memoir of the author's time in Hay-on-Wye, a small town in Wales that is practically overflowing with antiquarian booksellers. Instead of his musings on what it was like to live above a bookstore and take on a job as the American literature expert in one of the booksellers' sh...
Not well organized. It was so confusing that I was forever going back to see who/what the author was talking about.Easy to put down. I read a little bit for short periods of time - not compelling enough to keep my attention. One would think that the "Murder of the Century" would keep you intrigued....
3.5 stars Enjoyable fish out of water story (author and family move to Wales from San Francisco), quite amusing in some parts. Lots of references to obscure, out of prints books.
I think this book could have been better, which is the reason I only "liked it" (thus the 3 star rating). It has a lot of good going for it, but it also has a couple of things that honestly irritated me. Let's start with the not so good: * The whole quest to find a home in the town. For the most par...
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