This was a really good read. Maigret finds himself dealing with Dutch people (the horror!) with the mystery of a dead husband.The characters are well drawn. Miagret is a pleasure to read and this book looks closely at the pressures of a small community.
A novella translated from the French, The Library of Unrequited Love takes the form of a librarian's monologue to - or, rather, at - a reader locked in overnight. It's a bittersweet little book about loneliness, literature and love, with the unnamed librarian hankering after a researcher named Marti...
I learned. I laughed. I highlighted. I really enjoyed this little read. I will definitely read it again. If you love books, libraries and laughter I say give it a go.
Sadly, not for me. I'm just baffled.
Read from August 13 to 14, 2014 — I own a copy This is short story about a dull, lonely, modest woman who happens to work in the Geography section of a library. The Geography section of this particular library is housed in the basement. One morning before the library has opened, the woman discover...
This is an interesting concept - a brief novella which is purely and simply a diatribe from a downtrodden but ultimately rebellious librarian. It's a brave book therefore, but it's let down by the sheer lack of paragraphs and the sense of well-trodden cliche that hovers over the first half to three-...
I had just opened "The Library of Unrequited Love" and read the dedication page, when I knew I was going to love it. It only took one sentence to win me over completely:"To all those men and women who will always find a place for themselves in a library more easily than in society, I dedicate this e...
It is interesting and strange that I want so much to write about a book that only gets four-stars (4 stars being, in my inflated world, tantamount to saying it was only so-so... though this book is better than just so-so.I don't know quite why I've suddenly fallen into with this genre. I can't imagi...
The first book in the Commissaire Adamsberg series (though not translated into English first). Newly tranferred to Paris from the Pyrenees, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg has a rather unconventional way of looking at crimes. When blue chalk cirlces start showing up all over Paris he is sure s...
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