I find myself with 2 copies of this book so this one will be released at our next meetup.

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'Picked up at our meetup yesterday. I will give it a try! (Next stop: either back to HH Pub, next meetup, or LFL.)

I only took a cursory look at this book, and now I am thinking it's going to include Hay-on-Wye - which of course, is every UK Bookcrosser's favourite town in England! That makes me want to read this book even more.

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I LOVE books about books :)

I think jessibud had told me she couldn't get into this book, when she saw me pick it up at the meetup...but being the sucker I am for books about books, I picked it up anyway.

I can't say it's a great book. It was a pleasant diversion, and to be honest, I had never heard about the town of Hay-on-Wye and it is now on my bucket list of places to visit!

It was an odd juxtaposition of family anecdotes and bookish esoterica. Individually I enjoyed both sides, but it felt like I was jumping back and forth between two different books. I think the muddling of the two was not done well, I would have happily read a memoir about Paul Collins and his family's time in the UK where they just happened to live THE book town. I would have loved a little book of anecdotes about the bookstores in Hay-on-Wye and the uniqueness of the second hand book business. In one book? It just didn't work for me.