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I felt emotionally manipulated, but in a good way. Books about bookish people is certainly playing to the hometown audience.
A.J. Fikry is a widowed bookstore owner on tiny Alice Island. Store sales are down, not helped by the cranky and dismissive attitude of A.J. But, when someone leaves a toddler in his bookstore one stormy night, everything in A.J.'s life begins to change.
I really enjoyed witnessing A.J.'s development in this story as he breaks out of the funk of his wife's death and begins to live again. His life is filtered through fictional stories and their characters-he is just the type of person I would like ...more
I really enjoyed witnessing A.J.'s development in this story as he breaks out of the funk of his wife's death and begins to live again. His life is filtered through fictional stories and their characters-he is just the type of person I would like ...more
I really, really wanted to love this book, it's about an eccentric somewhat quirky book store owner... so many things to work with!
I love books about books, the selling of books, the discovery of books, the excitement of reading. This book seemed to be perfect, I thought this would be a great book, and then it wasn't
While there are characters in the book that you like, and some you really don't like at all, there is just not enough substance . The character I liked most in the book was the bo ...more
I love books about books, the selling of books, the discovery of books, the excitement of reading. This book seemed to be perfect, I thought this would be a great book, and then it wasn't
While there are characters in the book that you like, and some you really don't like at all, there is just not enough substance . The character I liked most in the book was the bo ...more
The prose is simple, straightforward, and charming. "AJ Fikry" felt like a bullet-pointed version of an epic 400-pager. The absence of build-up, background, description and development was unsettling at first, but ultimately resonated with the magic that happens when you put "the right words in the right place" (as the title character would say). Overall, I loved "The Storied Life of AJ Fikry." It gave my word-obsessed heart some deep feels and validated everything that readers love about readin
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