The Little Paris Bookshop – A Novel -
by Nina George / Simon Pare – Translater
I really had high hopes for this book,
it was so disappointing I didn’t want to finish the book. That is rare with me! I wonder if something was lost in
translation, althuogh there are many four and five star reviews, I wondr if
they were reading a different book. I
guess I’m so spoiled by reading books that grab you from the first page and
never let you go until you are closing the back cover of the book. The author really let me down. The book was written as a bookstore that had
an owner who only sold books to people who needed something and that book was
going to fill the void. I’ve had so many
books that did just that in my life.
This book though did not it only kept reminding me that I needed to
finish it so that I could post the nteeded review. I never post bad reviews I usually tell the
author that the book wasn’t for me, and they prefer that I not post the review,
just thank me for being honest and reading the book for them. This book was all about a man who HAD A book
store that could be pulled from it’s morings and could be floated down the
river as the owner looks for a long ago closure to a romance he had with a
married woman who gave him a letter and left him. He never read the letter until something
happened that made him find the letter again twenty years later. He decides he needs to go to where she was
last living…..He and an author who is having problems travel with the
bookshop…….I can’t recommend this book. I
give it two stars.
I received this book from “Bloggingforbooks.com” in exchange for an honest review.
The Description as found in Good Reads:
“There are books that are suitable
for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean
books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine
at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right
novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.”
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.
Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.
Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.
Nina George
Goodreads Author
Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning
and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and
freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries
and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600
columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for
a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der
Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges
writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for
provence-based mystery novels.
Born
Germany
Member Since
May 2012
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