the author says, i wanted to write what i want to read. she has written a delightful and charming book!
this is a gentle and courteous story about ordinary people seeking to be better versions of themselves. her style is sedate and proper but her pacing is quite masterful. i find myself interrupted by life but scuttling back to the warm embrace of the book.
that's not to say it is perfect. that a new bookstore is able to support 3-and-a-half employees within five years of life is a little unbelievable. as is the very existence of such a cocooned enclave as forms the magic of this book.
i like that the relationship with the mother is not resolved. one gets tired of neat tidy resolutions when clearly these often do not happen in real life.
this has been a lovely interlude with a really pleasurable read.
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