The Bookshop of 99 Doors Quotes

“1. If you were to come into ownership of a historic property, what time period, artifacts, or mysteries would you hope to discover within its walls? 2. Do you believe ghosts exist? Why or why not? 3. Civil War history still affects our nation today. What are ways you believe we are still being influenced by the choices of our ancestors, and how might that negatively or positively impact our lives? 4. When Triss decided to leave her family business and strike out on her own with a new name to pursue her questions about faith, she didn’t give her family a chance to respond to her search for truth. Can you think of an alternative way she could have managed her differences of beliefs with her family? 5. Dexter chooses to start the journey toward forgiveness instead of seeking retribution. How has forgiveness and reconciliation played a role in your life? 6. If you could open your own bookshop, which genres of ​books would you order to fill the shelves and why? What creative elements would you include in the bookshop to set it apart from others? A coffee bar? A cat café? Let your imagination run wild here! 7. While Victor Barringsworth’s book A Novel of Ill Intent is a fictitious classic work within a fictional story, what is one classic novel you began reading but found disturbing in some way—so much so that you were unable to finish it? What was so disturbing about it? Why?”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Bookshop of 99 Doors