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Apr

17

2020

Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell’s follow-up to Diary of a Bookseller is out this week. Confessions of a Bookseller picks up where Diary left off. Yes, Wigtown is still out in the ruralest of rural places in Scotland. Yes, people still don’t understand how used book stores work. Yes, Shaun still wrestles with his staff understanding where books …

Mar

12

2020

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo

This is a beautiful story about an unlikely friendship between a Taiwanese-American college graduate from the Midwest and a young African-American student dropout from the Mississippi Delta who is convicted of murder. Michelle Kuo details her time with Teach For America in the deep south and her relationship with her prized student with careful observations …

Mar

11

2020

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry

H. G. Parry’s deliciously literary bangity-bang The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep is out in paperback now. The premise is pretty simple: Charlie can make characters in books come to life. The complication is, uh, as frantic as a cave full of bats caught up in silly string. Naturally, Charlie and a handful of literature’s greatest must …

Feb

27

2020

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
by Abbi Waxman

In these days of trying times, political unrest, uncertainty on many fronts, it’s good to just take a step back and find some joy somewhere, anywhere. Reading Abbi Waxman’s novel is a good start. From the first page to the last, this is a book that will keep the reader giggling, chuckling, and even laughing …

Sep

22

2016

A Child of Books

A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

  First let me say, though while not a Luddite per se, reading books electronically is anathema to me, and children’s books in particular. Who among us hasn’t gone back to books we read or had read to us as children, to revel in the stories, words and pictures, and had wonderful memories flood back? …

Jun

2

2016

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar by Emily MacKenzie

Ralfy Rabbit is obsessed with books! While his rabbit buddies are dreaming of lettuce and carrots, Ralfy is making to-read lists. Soon he starts sneaking into people’s houses and stealing their books! He’s caught in the act by a little boy named Arthur, but unfortunately no one believes Arthur when he tells them a rabbit …

Apr

9

2014

The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag

The House at the End of Hope Street
by Menna van Praag

Ahhh— discovering a book like The House at the End of Hope Street is pure bliss! Wish you could read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society again for the first time? Try this! It’s like a bookish combination of “Amelie” and “Fried Green Tomatoes,” all set in a magical house in Cambridge, England: …

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