84, Charing Cross Road
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 2/22/2017
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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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.]
"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 GoryDetails 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
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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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*** Released for the 2017 Movie release challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2017 Theater release challenge. ***
[See other recent releases in MA here.]
*** Released for the 2017 Movie release challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2017 Theater release challenge. ***