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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Quite enjoying The Diary of a Bookseller. I get the impression his place may be a bit... quirkier than others, but that largely adds to the charm.
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I am more than halfway through this book. It is quite charming with a dose of biting humor. I am enjoying the colorful descriptions of customers, employees and townspeople. Also interesting is the insider's account of how the book-selling industry has changed quite dramatically in the last two decades. I am familiar with the book town of Hay-on-Wye, Wales but did not know about Wigtown, Scotland. Now I want to visit there!
I am also listening to
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult (2013) & Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2016). This book is similar to
The Book Thief where it is categorized as YA but also enjoyable for adults. Female pilots and spies in France during WW2 - my kind of story!
From Goodreads:
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Two young women become unlikely best friends during WWII, until one is captured by the Gestapo. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted to each other.
But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in “Verity’s” own words, as she writes her account for her captors. Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they’ve ever believed in is put to the test…
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