Author: Gabrielle Zevin
One-sentence summary: A lonely and cantankerous book store owner on a small island has his world turned upside down by two new ladies in his life.
B.A.D. Girls Book Rating: 7
Our favorite thing about it: It was an easy, fast and enjoyable story. And the book mentions!
Our least favorite thing about it: It was almost too fast…we were looking for a little more depth.
Main Topics of Discussion: Grief, Bookstores, Adoption, Honesty, Illness, Death
Our favorite quote: “The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”
Notes: Overall we enjoyed this story about AJ’s life. Lots of amazing things happened in his life…good and bad. We loved how the bookstore was the center, almost the anchor, of his life and those in his life. We loved the little letters to Maya at the beginning of each chapter about book recommendations. AJ himself is a dry, but witty character and becomes loveable. Beyond that, we didn’t care that much about any of the characters, although there was so much potential for that. We felt that some of the major life events in the book are just “mentioned” in a chapter and that’s it. Some of us were wanting a little more depth in those areas. The book sort of read like a survey of AJ’s life and glossed over the events and characters a little too quickly. This might be one of those novels we wished was actually longer. Still, we enjoyed it for what it was and were glad that it was not a laborious, but shallow read.
Memorable Meeting Moments: Well, we were at the lake house, so there were a lot of memorable moments.
What We Ate: All our usual lake house stuff and Love Shack burgers in Fort Worth on the way home.
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