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Collins moves his family from San Francisco to the book town of Hay-On-Wye, Wales. The young couple plan on buying a house and raising their son there as Paul awaits his first book to be published. In the meantime, he works for "The King of Hay" in one of the towns many bookstores, meets the Hay Festival organizer and many of the locals and attempts to find a house that won't fall down on them.
This is my second read of Sixpence House and I love Collins' writing and also his perspective, as an Am ...more
This is my second read of Sixpence House and I love Collins' writing and also his perspective, as an Am ...more
A booklover's treat - funny and warm with lots of gentle fun-poking. A great passage: "If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: 'Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder.' To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them: 'Hello. I am crap.'"
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As much as I am a bookaholic, I am glad I do not live in Hay-on-Wye as I believe that I would have no money left for food! It reminds me though of all the remainder books that libraries cannot sell but need to get rid of to make room for new books, or at least books that will actually be read/checked out. It is unfortunate that these books get passed along to the dumpster.
TITLE/AUTHOR: THE SIXPENCE HOUSE by Paul Collins
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Non-Fiction, 2003, 242 pgs
COMMENTS: Paul, along w/ his wife & baby move from San
Francisco to a small Welsh town, Hay-on-Wye, a town w/
1500 inhabitants & 40 bookstores.
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Non-Fiction, 2003, 242 pgs
COMMENTS: Paul, along w/ his wife & baby move from San
Francisco to a small Welsh town, Hay-on-Wye, a town w/
1500 inhabitants & 40 bookstores.
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