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The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler

Start date: July 22, 2015

Finish date: July 31, 2015

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Sep 01, 2015 Morgan rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, audiobook

Lots of good things going for it, but one of those cases where the MC brings down the rest of the story down. The narrator didn't help matters a whole bunch either, but that's partially on me for going the audiobook route.

2.5 stars ...more

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Mar 08, 2016 Roseann rated it really liked it

Reviews will be short today as I am fighting a nasty flu bug.

I loved this tale of generations of a family bound together by a book. Told from the perspective of a recently unemployed librarian who finds himself and his legacy through an old tome sent by a bookseller he has never met.

If you like books about books, this one should be on your list to read and own.

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