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The Lost for Words Bookshop
by Stephanie Butland
Sometimes you relate to a book so much that you have to pour out a slightly overwrought late night review. This is one of those books for me.
Some of it is quite sad. Terrible events, like abuse, a broken home, and heartbreak. But it's also gloriously bookish, a love story to reading. The joy of the hunt, the smell of a bookstore, the love of books both general and specific. (Loveday likes Terry Pratchett, which makes her amazing. All Pratchett fans are.)
Loveday is a bit broken, though getting better. She makes some emotionally stunted choices. But she eventually realizes she is not alone in a frozen wasteland, but only on an island, with people who love her in a lifeboat, just offshore. If she can only take that first step...
A heartfelt read for people who love books, and/or those that had something in their childhood they had to heal from. Life is rough sometimes, but isn't it wonderful to think there are people who love us, even if, in that wasteland, we can't see the boat?
Some of it is quite sad. Terrible events, like abuse, a broken home, and heartbreak. But it's also gloriously bookish, a love story to reading. The joy of the hunt, the smell of a bookstore, the love of books both general and specific. (Loveday likes Terry Pratchett, which makes her amazing. All Pratchett fans are.)
Loveday is a bit broken, though getting better. She makes some emotionally stunted choices. But she eventually realizes she is not alone in a frozen wasteland, but only on an island, with people who love her in a lifeboat, just offshore. If she can only take that first step...
A heartfelt read for people who love books, and/or those that had something in their childhood they had to heal from. Life is rough sometimes, but isn't it wonderful to think there are people who love us, even if, in that wasteland, we can't see the boat?