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De leestip door Shelly King
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De leestip (origineel 2014; editie 2015)

door Shelly King

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.
Maggie Duprv®s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers.
Witty and sharp-eyed in its treatment of tech world excesses, but with real warmth at its core, The Moment of Everything is a wonderful rea
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Lid:WinekevdGraaf
Titel:De leestip
Auteurs:Shelly King
Info:Grand Central Publishing (2014), Paperback, 288 pagina's
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Overall I enjoyed this book. The premise, the pacing and the characters (even the ones I loved to hate) were all enjoyable.

I had two problems with this book:

1). This is a minor point and pretty subtle in its presentation, but the main character loves her friends despite their geekiness, rather than because of it. The main character herself qualifies as a geek, but of a different nature (Master of Library Science, romance novel enthusiast). I'm tired of novels that seem to say "my passions are normal, but yours are just weird. I want more general appreciation for others' interests (can we call it intersectional geekery?).

2). The real reason I only gave this book four stars is because it's choppy. Some scenes are written in lyrical prose, and some have a mainstream chic-lit voice to them. Each tone suits the scene it describes, but the transitions between are abrupt or nonexistent, which makes for a jarring experience. ( )
  SharpSarcasm | Sep 6, 2023 |
Recensione completa qui: http://thereadingpal.blogspot.it/2017/01/recensione-54-tutta-colpa-di-un-libro.h...

«Non credo di essere io a renderle difficili.» Senza guardarmi, sussurrò: «“Cerco di
tirare avanti con le mie giornate, facendo quello che mi viene richiesto, ma mi ritrovo
sempre più spesso qui, a chiedermi dove sarai”».
I miei occhi si chiusero e mi sembrò di divenire con tutta me stessa consapevole di
ogni parte di lui. Sollevai una mano a toccare la punta di un suo ricciolo. E, come se non
stesse aspettando altro, Rajhit premette le labbra sulla mia clavicola.



Questo libro... Ad essere sincera, pensavo non mi sarebbe piaciuto. Ma, alla fine, mi sono ricreduta.
Maggie, che adora leggere libri romance, dopo aver perso il lavoro sta seduta alla Dragonfly, libreria di libri usati, a leggere.
Il suo migliore amico Dizzy cerca di aiutarla e di farla riassumere, convincendola a far parte di un gruppo di lettura per una sorta di captatio benevolentiae nei confronti di Avi, creatrice del gruppo di lettura, ed anche l'unica persona che potrebbe farla riassumere. Il libro da leggere è L'amante di Lady Chatterley. Il titolo italiano di questo romanzo è davvero appropriato: tutta la storia ha luogo per colpa di questo libro. O meglio, di una certa copia.
Dizzy procura a Maggie una copia nuova di zecca dall'Apollo, la libreria di catena di fronte alla Dragonfly, ma Hugo, il proprietario della libreria dell'usato, le fornisce invece una copia usata... Una copia diversa da tutte le altre, perché contiene i pensieri di due persone, Henry e Catherine, che si scambiano messaggi attraverso il libro. Nell'ultima pagina, una richiesta di incontro. E di loro non si sa più nulla.
Maggie cerca di impressionare Avi cercando di far "decollare" la Dragonfly, e di renderla un posto accogliente per attirare clienti. Posta così le annotazioni sul sito web da lei creato per la libreria, lasciando indietro l'ultima annotazione, in speranza che qualcuno le venga a dare ulteriori notizie.
Ad ogni capitolo troviamo le annotazioni dei due, cosa che ci rende partecipi della loro storia, ma, in parallelo, c'è la storia tra Maggie e Rajhit, e gli sforzi di lei per far guadagnare la libreria.
Non possiamo non affezionarci ad Hugo e a Jason, l'altro commesso nella libreria, e persino al gatto, anche se piuttosto scorbutico. Maggie è piuttosto diversa da me, ma anche lei mi ha attirato. Per quanto riguarda Rajhit, invece, non proprio.
Nel corso della storia il mistero dei due amanti si schiarisce, ad ogni passo siamo sempre più vicini a scoprire la loro identità... Anche grazie ad una scoperta di Maggie.
La Dragonfly mi ha ricordato un po' la libreria dell'usato dove vado di solito: le due poltrone, i libri, le sezioni un po' a caso. Mi sono quasi trovata a casa. Lo stile di scrittura rende tutto scorrevole e piacevole: assieme alla storia, ha fatto in modo che il tempo volasse. E, pur non essendo il mio genere di libri per quanto riguarda la romance, il libro mi è piaciuto e ho dovuto prendermi un momento prima di riordinare i miei pensieri a riguardo.
Penso che se dovessi leggere un altro libro di Shelly King lo farei volentieri, e consiglio anche a voi di leggere Tutta colpa di un libro. ( )
  thereadingpal | Jun 14, 2022 |
Three and a half. Lacks the charm of The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, but a pleasant read. Much of it seems ... unlikely, somehow. ( )
  MuggleBorn930 | Jul 11, 2021 |
Overall I enjoyed this book. The premise, the pacing and the characters (even the ones I loved to hate) were all enjoyable.

I had two problems with this book:

1). This is a minor point and pretty subtle in its presentation, but the main character loves her friends despite their geekiness, rather than because of it. The main character herself qualifies as a geek, but of a different nature (Master of Library Science, romance novel enthusiast). I'm tired of novels that seem to say "my passions are normal, but yours are just weird. I want more general appreciation for others' interests (can we call it intersectional geekery?).

2). The real reason I only gave this book four stars is because it's choppy. Some scenes are written in lyrical prose, and some have a mainstream chic-lit voice to them. Each tone suits the scene it describes, but the transitions between are abrupt or nonexistent, which makes for a jarring experience. ( )
  snapsnarlgrowl | Jul 8, 2020 |
This is a book about books and those who love them, a used bookstore, about the people who own and run it, and the customers. I loved this, especially because it's not a cutesy story, and reads like a memoir (even though "a novel" is part of the title). The story begins with narrator Maggie saying "Books don't change people's lives, not like everyone thinks they do." But she proves herself wrong in the very first chapter of The Moment of Everything. The characters are unique, quirky, multi-dimensional, and memorable. The story is clever, funny, touching, and satisfying. I don't want to give anything away - but hope I've told you enough that you will seek this book out.

I came across this in a used bookstore, which is the perfect place to find this book. And it's another one I'll be telling everyone to read. ( )
  PhyllisReads | Apr 27, 2019 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.
Maggie Duprv®s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers.
Witty and sharp-eyed in its treatment of tech world excesses, but with real warmth at its core, The Moment of Everything is a wonderful rea

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