Found in a Bookshop: The emotional, life-affirming novel you'll never forget | 
pickAn endearing book about how a bookstore brought people together during Covid in England, but it‘s quite sad at times. I loved the Book Pharmacy, what a fantastic idea!! Easy to read and beautifully written. I love my books and enjoyed reading about others who love reading also. I didn‘t realize this was a sequel and didn‘t feel like I missed anything in not reading the first book. Book #37 in 2024
so-soThis month‘s #bookspin is a proper lockdown book. The first I read and I don‘t know how to feel about it. I like the idea - in lockdown, people can mail in with their problems/situation and the bookshop „prescribes“ them some books. But there were too many character so the storylines stayed on the surface. And those who went deeper seemed too extreme. Also some of the backstories weren‘t resolved? ⬇️
pickBeautiful but heartbreaking. Depending on your COVID experiences you may not be ready to read this just yet. It's setting is UK during Lockdown. People dealing with life in the Pandemic. And there are deaths. ⬇️
I‘m spending the long weekend with Coopy and the last little bit of this lovely impulse buy. It‘s the first proper pandemic novel I‘ve read, and it‘s a really affecting look at how a wide spectrum of York residents make it through lockdown, with books (and the shop that provides them) not as a cure-all but a powerful helper in hard times. Highly recommended to anyone who likes mosaic novels with a strong core.
