"You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favorite book?"In this delightful, offbeat novel centered around an independent bookstore at a small island town, the characters are all book people: a prickly bookstore owner, a sales rep at a publish...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis is a really hard review to write. Overall, I liked the book, but it is kind of hard to put into words what I did and did not like. I found the book interesting enough. The story was unique in it's overall arch, although it utilized a lot of not-so...
Damn, is this book charming. And heartbreaking. It’s been a while since I’ve read a novel that can affect me the way this one did. I didn’t even know a thing about it, which is why I’m very reluctant to say too much about it. Also, I’m terrible at story summaries. This book was such an excellent...
A slight whimsical novel that encapsulates the important moments in the life of an over-educated curmudgeonly bookseller who unexpectedly meets the love of his life, a child to raise and complications that open up his hermetic island existence. A lovely book about a man who loves words and storie...
I sort of liked this book, until the 88% mark, at which the narrative took a turn that I found unredeemably distasteful. Until then, my thoughts about the book: This is a mildly interesting, if a little maudlin, romance about a grumpy lover of literary fiction (AJ) who is saved by love for the amazi...
I was watching a YouTube vlogger sum up their top books of 2016 and this was on the list. When I went and checked it out the blurb attracted me so much that I started it as soon as I could. Here it is: On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto "No ...
The book starts out well with a charming curmudgeon of a protagonist, and I quite enjoyed the first half, but the story loses itself a bit right around the point where the romance picks up. A.J. is a widowed bookseller, content to spend his days at the bookstore and his nights drinking until he pass...
My thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book. Having just finished a book about books and bookshops I asked the hive mind that is social media for suggestions of other books that celebrate novels, bookshops and booklovers. One of the most suggested titles was The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry ...
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