The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
"People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?"
Oh, how true! This is almost a love letter to the bookselling profession. There are so many things that only a bookseller or librarian will appreciate. The story itself is a bit maudlin, though. A curmudgeonly bookseller whose wife has recently died is approached by the new publishers rep pushing a book written by an old man whose wife has recently died. Later he finds someone has abandoned a child in his bookstore. This is the beginning of a life. It has a few twists I did not foresee, and that is always pleasant. There's a sort of Tuesdays with Morrie kind of feel to it, but it is still really enjoyable.
One last quote that is oh-so-true:
"The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life."
Oh, how true! This is almost a love letter to the bookselling profession. There are so many things that only a bookseller or librarian will appreciate. The story itself is a bit maudlin, though. A curmudgeonly bookseller whose wife has recently died is approached by the new publishers rep pushing a book written by an old man whose wife has recently died. Later he finds someone has abandoned a child in his bookstore. This is the beginning of a life. It has a few twists I did not foresee, and that is always pleasant. There's a sort of Tuesdays with Morrie kind of feel to it, but it is still really enjoyable.
One last quote that is oh-so-true:
"The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life."
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