*The Bookshop : A Novel
2 journalers for this copy...
From the back cover:
"In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. by daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one."
"In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. by daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one."
The Book Shop was O.K. although my judgment was clouded by the fact that I read it in piecemeal with weeks between readings. I'm unable to give an accurate review for that reason. Hopefully, it is a good book to read but the story wasn't drawing me back to read on like I would have expected.
~ THIS BOOK IS RESERVED FOR MLBURGESS2 AS PART OF SCOUT-FINCH'S MAKE-A-FRIEND RABCK CHALLENGE ~
Sent The Bookshop to mlburgess2 yesterday, 8/2/05, as part of scout-finch's Make A Friend RABCK Challenge.
Enjoy, mlburgess2!
Enjoy, mlburgess2!
Rec'd a while ago--Thank You! =)
