by Charlie Lovett
I saw on Goodreads that this book was compared to Possession by A.S. Byatt and that really made me want to read this book. Alas this book was like a pale version of possession. It had elements of Possession. Especially the ending when Peter [spoiler] found out that his Amanda was related to B/B[/spo...
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I started reading this book. I don't think I quite understood that it as a mystery, and I thought it would be darker than it ended up being. It felt like The Da Vinci Code towards the end (and I mean that in the best way possible). I really enjoyed reading Th...
I couldn't get through this book. Stopped at page 133. I read some other reviews on here and they said that once they got to page 182 it got a lot better. I just couldn't put forth the effort in this one. I was so bored. I thought I was going to like it because it's a book about a bibliophile obsess...
Peter Byerly has always been shy and has always preferred the companionship of books to that of people. Introverted, bookish, socially inept and even slightly OCD he may be, but he is also smart, talented and knows almost everything there is to know about old books. We meet Peter shortly after his...
Our protagonist, Peter Byerley, is a young bookseller who caught the bibliophile bug at (the fictional) Ridgefield University in North Carolina. A scholarship boy with crippling shyness, his preferred work/study job was in the library, because he wouldn't have to interact with anyone. And yet that i...
Even though I really liked this book, I am having a hard time gathering my thoughts. It is a truly a novel for literature lovers. The Bookman’s Tale is really three stories woven together, Peter’s past, Peter’s present, and the history of the manuscript. As you can see by my rating, I liked a lot...
It was a good premise, a good mystery but I was disappointed with the predictability of it all. I was hoping for a twist or two or of at least being surprised which unfortunately, I wasn’t at all. There was a point where something I expected happened and I was actually that disappointed that I had ...
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