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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
3.0

In 1988 Frank owns a music store that only has records. He has a special gift of knowing just the right song to recommend to people to deal with whatever their troubles are. Until Ilse Brauchmann faints outside of his store and throws Frank off. Not only can he not read anything off her, he can't get her off his mind! Over the next few months Frank tries to keep his community running while trying to learn more about Ilse. 
This one has been on my shelf for a while. I kinda get what the story was trying to do, but again I think this book just isn't for me. I didn't connect with the characters. There are a lot of books with quirky characters, but this was a book of only quirky characters, and it just seemed like too much at times. The ending gained a star for me. There were some time jumps that made it difficult to catch sometimes while listening to the audiobook.