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Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor - not much else to do in a small town that's almost beyond repair. They just never imagined that she'd start a bookstore. Or that books could bri ...more
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor - not much else to do in a small town that's almost beyond repair. They just never imagined that she'd start a bookstore. Or that books could bri ...more
This book is what I would put in the category of "gentle reads". Nothing particularly bad happens here, unless you count the death of Amy, Sara's penpal. But that death happens off screen and before Sara arrives, so you have no emotional connection to her at the beginning of the story. So what you really have is the story of a small town and its inhabitants, and how they react to a stranger in their midst.
Broken Wheel, Iowa turns out to be a town desperate for something new to happen, so Sara's ...more
Broken Wheel, Iowa turns out to be a town desperate for something new to happen, so Sara's ...more
A perfectly nice read. Perhaps like the people of Iowa, where the book takes place, this book is perfectly nice. Sarah has just arrived from Sweden in Broken Wheel Iowa. She is to meet her book pen pal, Amy only Amy has just passed away. Sara meets all sorts of interesting townsfolk and decides to give back to the town by opening a bookshop. The bookshop seems to transform the town into something it was many years ago before the shops closed up and people moved away. I enjoyed this story - it mo
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