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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin

Why we're reading this: Could count as a mystery, although that's not the main point. My mom loves this one. Offers a Z last name…more
[close] Could count as a mystery, although that's not the main point. My mom loves this one. Offers a Z last name, which would probably be a difficult initial to match.

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Jul 28, 2016 Astrid Lim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-of-books, romance, america, dramatic, contemporary, family

Wonderful, charming story about people who live books and how books have affected their lives. The characters felt real to me and easy to relate, the book references are very very nice, and even though the plot itself is a bit too dramatic and fairy tale-ish, I still feel it is heartwarming. Ohhh and the setting of an independent bookstore in an island off massachusets- charming!

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Apr 01, 2016 Stacy rated it liked it

Perfectly nice book about a bookseller living on a island off the coast of Massachusetts. His wife dies and a baby ends up in his shop once day, abandoned. I was worried this would become a "baby solves everything" book but it isn't. I can't stand those books where parenthood is the solution to one's happiness - like "my life was incomplete until this special snowflake saved me." The story was nice and gentle. AJ, our bookseller, lives a content life. I was surprised and saddened by then ending ...more

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