Bookish People
Book description
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week-narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner.
Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the…
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I laughed out loud frequently while reading this book and when I wasn’t laughing out loud, I was smiling.
Susan Coll’s writing is satire, but it is very gentle satire: the author’s affection and sympathy for people is always clear, even as she is describing their ridiculously bumbling ways. I love all of her novels but this one, as the title suggests, is perfect for people who love books, set as it is in an indie bookstore full to overflowing with characters who embody all the ways that bookish people can be both loveable and ridiculous in their typically bookish…
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