A review by readabilitea
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Henry Hitchings

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

2.75

I loved the premise of this book and the wide variety of authors and countries and bookshops spoken about but on the whole this missed the mark. I expected to not get on with some essays (it's a collection after all) but very few really captured me. I really liked Saša Stanišić's essay and the one by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and I was grateful to be introduced to some new-to-me writers, but overall this felt like a very self-indulgent collection of essays focusing all to often on 'proper' literature and bookshops