![]() ![]() ![]() Fikry (I find his name, first and last, to be awkward, by the way) by Gabrielle Zevin is basically about an old-fashioned bookstore on a small island near Boston. ![]() ![]() Even what the notes reveal about the plot is a little premature, sometimes. The short stories, even the notes on them, didn’t seem to enhance the story in any way. While it still might be a good way to book-club this book, it is not necessary for reading it, or even particularly enriching to that experience. Wouldn’t that make a cool book club project? Read the short story and the chapter for the club meetings? I happened to have the first short story-“Lamb to a Slaughter” by Roald Dahl-in a collection on my bookshelf, so I read it before reading the first chapter. In fact, each chapter begins with a note on an actual short story and I wondered if it would add to my experience to read these short stories as I went. It is peopled with writers, authors, bookstore owners, booksellers, English teachers, and of course, books. There are reasons why this book would jump out at me, anyhow: it’s about books, essentially. I read this book because my mother-in-law recommended it after she read it in a book club and then my uncle bought it for me off of my birthday wishlist. ![]()
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