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The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel - Community Reviews back

by Nina George, Simon Pare
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Girl Well Read
Girl Well Read rated it 10 years ago
A special thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Floating on the Seine is a very special bookshop. Monsieur Jean Perdu is a brokenhearted bookseller that prescribes books to locals and tourists of Paris much like a pharmacist. Perdu is accustomed to his solitary life as h...
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
I got this through First Reads.I really enjoyed this read. The idea for the plot is lovely, and the very idea of a floating bookshop and a proprietor who proscribes books for what ails you is charming. It has a small adventure and charming characters undergoing transformation. The dialog, in part...
Olga Godim
Olga Godim rated it 10 years ago
A wonderful book, one of the best I’ve read recently. Its protagonist Jean Perdu is a 50-year-old bookseller, the owner of a barge converted into a floating bookshop. It’s fitting that a story about a bookseller has multiple literary allusions. To start with, it takes place on boat. Three men and [n...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 10 years ago
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley There is an independent bookstore in Philadelphia called Joseph Fox. It is smallish – one floor, a big first room, a passage, a back room, and a smaller backer room where the children’s books are kept. Every conceivable space is packed with books. Does...
katinka
katinka rated it 12 years ago
Dieses Buch war eine Empfehlung der WDR 2 Buchtipps von Christine Westermann. Sie hat mich überzeugt das Buch zu lesen und ich kann es von Herzen weiterempfehlen. Jean Perdu hat eine Literarische Hausapotheke als Bücherschiff. Seit 20 Jahren lebt er sehr zurückgezogen, weil ihn seine Freundin verlie...
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