84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 0140143505 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 2/22/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
I found this slightly-battered softcover at a local Goodwill thrift shop, and nabbed it for another release copy of this charming memoir.

"84 Charing Cross Road" is simply a series of letters exchanged between a crusty New York writer and a knowledgeable London bookshop clerk from 1949 to the '60s. The love of books and the details of daily life at either end of the correspondence gives the book a thoroughly charming tone. Anglophiles and bibliophiles should love this one!

The whole thing is quotable, but here's one charming bit, just to provide the flavor; Helene has received another book from Frank, the bookshop clerk, and is describing her pleasure in finding that its pages weren't even cut, adding: "Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit."

[The book inspired a stage adaptation, as well as a 1987 film.]

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at Little Free Library, Lafayette Ave in Chelsea, Massachusetts USA on Friday, February 24, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (2/24/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library, Lafayette Ave in Chelsea, Massachusetts USA

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I left this book in the Little Free Library at around 3 on this beautiful day. Hope the finder enjoys it!

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