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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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...What is it that held me back from melting over this book? .....
The story itself though, still genius. Wonderful writing. I really felt like I was walking down the street and stumbled on Bloomsbury Books, browsing the shelves and soaking in the book fantasy feels.......
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...What is it that held me back from melting over this book? .....
The story itself though, still genius. Wonderful writing. I really felt like I was walking down the street and stumbled on Bloomsbury Books, browsing the shelves and soaking in the book fantasy feels.......
Follow along on my Bookstagram/Instagram.
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A very interesting book about women in the work place of a bookstore post WWII in London as the world was trying to figure out how to move forward from a war time economy. I actually really enjoyed the story and all the historical aspects that the author put into the story. Men vs Women, races and romance, as well as the discovery of books and ways different generations of people view them.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Exactly the lighthearted read about post WW2 women’s empowerment I wanted to read.
Like the Jane Austen Society, it’s an ode to reading and writing, but with way more substance than the former, despite a prose at time too repetitive in its exposition.
Interestingly enough, I found the men more interesting as characters than the women who were sometimes too much like archetypes. To be clear they were insufferable, presumptuous, and sexist, but it’s a testament to Jenner’s writing that she got us to care about them.
Love the encounters with real-life writers.
Some pearls about the writing process.
Like the Jane Austen Society, it’s an ode to reading and writing, but with way more substance than the former, despite a prose at time too repetitive in its exposition.
Interestingly enough, I found the men more interesting as characters than the women who were sometimes too much like archetypes. To be clear they were insufferable, presumptuous, and sexist, but it’s a testament to Jenner’s writing that she got us to care about them.
Love the encounters with real-life writers.
Some pearls about the writing process.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Take one antiquarian* book shop with fifty-one archaic rules, five chaps happy with the status quo but not reckoning on the three girls poised & ready to change the world!
I’ve loved every word of this novel, the second by Natalie Jenner & following on (though standing alone) from the hugely successful, The Jane Austen Society.
Set in 1950 in the heart of London in a four floor book shop, I knew I was in for a treat when the opening page of the book is a hand drawn map of the rambling premises.
The author has seamlessly sewn together believable characters you care about with a seemingly benign plot but the more you read the more you become aware of a rippling undercurrent of change & a slow building of tension. The ending is sublime; lose ends tied but with enough left open to interpretation as to make it simultaneously unpredictable & satisfying.
An absolute treat for any book worm with some
scenes taken from real life historical events & characters including Daphne du Maurier & George Orwell’s wife, Sonia.
Arc received from the @tandemcollective- thank you. Views all my own.
*also contemporary books & maps but it flowed better to say antiquarian!!
I’ve loved every word of this novel, the second by Natalie Jenner & following on (though standing alone) from the hugely successful, The Jane Austen Society.
Set in 1950 in the heart of London in a four floor book shop, I knew I was in for a treat when the opening page of the book is a hand drawn map of the rambling premises.
The author has seamlessly sewn together believable characters you care about with a seemingly benign plot but the more you read the more you become aware of a rippling undercurrent of change & a slow building of tension. The ending is sublime; lose ends tied but with enough left open to interpretation as to make it simultaneously unpredictable & satisfying.
An absolute treat for any book worm with some
scenes taken from real life historical events & characters including Daphne du Maurier & George Orwell’s wife, Sonia.
Arc received from the @tandemcollective- thank you. Views all my own.
*also contemporary books & maps but it flowed better to say antiquarian!!
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No