How to Find Love in a Bookshop
I'm a sucker for books about bookshops and this title drew me in.
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Thoughts:
With an opening chapter that is somewhat lacking in details and then a 30 year jump, I found myself intrigued by the holes and details that were gradually filled in to this charming story.
Written by someone with a very literary imagination and a love of words and decidedly British, I needed to reach for my proverbial dictionary to look up words I didn't know. Often, they were British English vernacular, so I didn't feel as lacking in my own vocabulary.
This story weaves together several love stories in a way that is simple and endearing. It is quite possible to see yourself in most of the relationships, recognising faults and failings as well as hopes and dreams.
Each time a book or musical piece was mentioned, I wanted to read it or listen to it. The story was enriched by the fact that it drew on known entities (other books, musical pieces and works of art) to deepen the connection with the characters.
A Quote Without Context:
Visit to The Cardamom Pod. Recently, I've been obsessed with cardamom as a spice, and I can only imagine how lovely a restaurant that chooses to have "cardamom" as part of its name must be.
Oh, I can't just choose that!
I loved Thomasina's pop-up restaurant in her living room. I've really come to enjoy crafting meals over the past few years and that idea seemed so much nicer than the work and responsibility of opening a restaurant.
New Vocabulary Words:
perspicacious - having a ready insight into and understanding of things
stertorous - (of breathing) noisy and labored
Travel Bug:
Set in small town England, villages surrounding Oxford, wandering along the main street of any small town hoping to find a treasure such as Nightingale Books.
Read Again?
Yes, if I don't have my nose in another good book.
Click here to buy on Amazon, or check it out from your local library, or pay a visit to your local bookshop and buy it there.
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Thoughts:
With an opening chapter that is somewhat lacking in details and then a 30 year jump, I found myself intrigued by the holes and details that were gradually filled in to this charming story.
Written by someone with a very literary imagination and a love of words and decidedly British, I needed to reach for my proverbial dictionary to look up words I didn't know. Often, they were British English vernacular, so I didn't feel as lacking in my own vocabulary.
This story weaves together several love stories in a way that is simple and endearing. It is quite possible to see yourself in most of the relationships, recognising faults and failings as well as hopes and dreams.
Each time a book or musical piece was mentioned, I wanted to read it or listen to it. The story was enriched by the fact that it drew on known entities (other books, musical pieces and works of art) to deepen the connection with the characters.
A Quote Without Context:
She felt as if the books were asking for news. He's gone, she wanted to tell them, but she didn't because she didn't trust her voice. And because it was silly. Books told you things, everything you needed to know, but you didn't talk back to them.Something I would like to do that was in this book:
Visit to The Cardamom Pod. Recently, I've been obsessed with cardamom as a spice, and I can only imagine how lovely a restaurant that chooses to have "cardamom" as part of its name must be.
Oh, I can't just choose that!
I loved Thomasina's pop-up restaurant in her living room. I've really come to enjoy crafting meals over the past few years and that idea seemed so much nicer than the work and responsibility of opening a restaurant.
New Vocabulary Words:
perspicacious - having a ready insight into and understanding of things
stertorous - (of breathing) noisy and labored
Travel Bug:
Set in small town England, villages surrounding Oxford, wandering along the main street of any small town hoping to find a treasure such as Nightingale Books.
Read Again?
Yes, if I don't have my nose in another good book.
Click here to buy on Amazon, or check it out from your local library, or pay a visit to your local bookshop and buy it there.
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