Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through lite...
Unfortunately, I did not meet my goal of finishing The Little Paris Bookshop Tuesday night. I utilized my Kindle Fire's read-to-me function at 1.5 speed for the remaining 26%. To be honest I should've done it sooner. I'm realizing that books that lose my interest are far better when read to me than ...
As an avid reader, I eagerly awaited the publication of this book. I was excited about the protagonist, Monsieur Perdu, being a book apothecary -- being able to accurately 'diagnose' a need and dispense a book to someone, and what more, owns a floating bookstore. What I especially liked about this s...
4.5 stars This was a great story with some really great characters. Jean is a bookseller who sells books off of a barge that has been anchored on the Seine for over 20 years. One day he decides that he is going to travel and try to relieve himself of the grief he is feeling. He has just found out th...
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel, by Nina George (Author), Steve West (Reader), Emma Bering (Reader), Cassandra Campbell (Reader), translated by Simon Pare When we meet Jean Perdu, we find a very unhappy, introverted bookseller who manages to solve the problems of others but fails to find solution...
I’m not into typical romance novels but occasionally a love story will strike me as something I would like to spend some time with. Plus, how could I resist a literary apothecary selling books to heal his customers from a bloating bookshop in the Seine? I actually ended up liking this book much mo...
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George is a story about a love affair with books that turns into the story of a romance. The book starts off in a beautiful Paris setting with a bookstore named the Literary Apothecary on board a barge in the Seine – a perfect start for book lovers. Unfortunately, i...
Bibliotherapy is the semi-serious prescribing of literature—novels, poems, essays, etc.—for emotional ailments. The theory is that books can cure one of ennui, sorrow over a broken relationship, feeling overlooked, and so on. Jean Perdu, the protagonist of Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop, ma...
I have a lot I want to say about this book, but I'm up to my eyeballs in cold medicine so I'm not sure I'll be able to pull it off. On the surface of it, this book is about a man - Jean Perdu - who owns a bookshop barge on the Seine, the Literary Apothecary and he's known for being able to prescri...
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