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Bezig met laden... Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: a novel (editie 2017)door Matthew Sullivan
Informatie over het werkMidnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore door Matthew Sullivan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Picked this up because I liked the cover and I'm a real sucker for anything bookstore related. I knew nothing about the actual plot and was surprised to find out it was a mystery - more like two of them. I found the story interesting (if a little too neat) and the details were just creepy enough while not being creepy enough to make me want to stop reading. This one didn't do it for me very much. The first half was slow and hard to trudge through (I even switched to audio and that was a terrible mistake; the narrator's reading style was so distracting that it ruined the book even more and I switched back to hard copy). Once I got through the grueling introductions I enjoyed it much more. But still, an easy book to put down and not one I will repeat. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs- the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s shelves. When Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager belongings. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she u earths a long buried memory from her childhood. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "intriguingly dark, twisty" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogsâ??the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Always Joey's favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia? As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia's life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left. "Both charming and challenging" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a "multi-generational tale of abandonment, desperation, and betrayal...inventive and intricately plotted" (Publishers Weekly, starred revie Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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