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What a delightful read! This book has been on my TBB list for several years, but could never find a copy locally. A local used book store is in the process of moving and holding clearance sales every few weeks. While browsing one such table, I spied a box marked “books about books” and tucked inside were two copies of this book! So glad I was finally able to lay hands on a copy. Definitely a keeper!
Nov 13, 2020:
Enjoyed this second reading as much as the first. Highly recommend.
Nov 13, 2020:
Enjoyed this second reading as much as the first. Highly recommend.
A wonderful charming series of letters between a New York screenwriter and an English book seller. Makes me want to write letter again. Also wish I had a wonderful leather bound copy of this. Because the letters contain only crumbs of details my imagination got to run wild with what Frank and Helen look like and they worlds they inhabit.
I will definitely reread this book.
I will definitely reread this book.
Well, this was lovely. Do yourself a favor and sit down for 2 hours to read it. Useful things I did not realize until I had the book:
1.) It's incredibly short
2.) It's not fiction. These are real letters Hanff collected and published.
3.) 95% of the books discussed hold no interest for me, and that didn't detract in the slightest.
Sometimes Hanff would annoy me with her sass, but then I'd remember that she was a lady living on her own in NYC in 1949&c, and making a living as a writer. Sass. Earned. ...more
1.) It's incredibly short
2.) It's not fiction. These are real letters Hanff collected and published.
3.) 95% of the books discussed hold no interest for me, and that didn't detract in the slightest.
Sometimes Hanff would annoy me with her sass, but then I'd remember that she was a lady living on her own in NYC in 1949&c, and making a living as a writer. Sass. Earned. ...more
Absolutely charming. I’d love to go back and read some of the books mentioned. At first I didn’t realize it was non-fiction! What a lovely, lovely read!
I quick read of real letter written between the author in the U.S. and the staff at a British bookstore. It's amusing to know the story of these unlikely acquaintances, but I didn't have any special fondness for most of the classic texts Hanff requests, nor opinions about various versions of the texts, and I don't frequently like the smell of ancient books anymore. So, it wasn't really my kind of book.
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Lovely little book. The real-life correspondence between an American bibliophile and a British bookseller, spanning two decades in the mid-twentieth century. Very short and very charming.
A short book of letters. Was very charming.
Dec 13, 2011
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Jamie Ross
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Katy Kennedy
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