Unfortunately, I went from loving the narrator's handling of each voice (except the protagonist's) and sharing the excitement about starting over with a bookstore of withdrawn books to hating the thought of slogging through one more minute of the main character's sexual forays and whining self-centeredness. Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. This may be a very good read for romance fans. But the main character's blithe disregard for other people's feelings, safety, privacy, emotional needs, and vulnerabilities may wear on a reader who doesn't realize all this occasionally aggravating plot is going to be about will be learning to bond through sex.

The descriptions of the Scottish Highlands are vivid and invigorating, and the book recommendations for certain problems and character types are thought-provoking or just laugh-out-loud fun. And then, three fourths of the way through the book, the reader realizes that this book is a formulaic 'romance': staged misunderstandings, obsessive insecurities, noncommittal sex, and all. The Bookshop On The Corner was remarkable. Buy One, Get One 50 Off Books for All Ages. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan Published by: William Morrow / HarperCollins Publish Date: 2016 Genre(s): Fiction, Womens Fiction. Summary: Nina Redmond loses her librarian job, pursues a dream of a mobile bookshop, ending up in the Scottish Highlands, bringing joy to a cluster of small towns in her Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After, while longing for her own happy-ever-after. Shop the Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide. The Bookshop on the Corner, Jenny Colgan. Explore Exclusive Seasonal Offers 10 Off eBook & Audiobooks With Code: COZYBOOKS. Throughout, however, there is the sense that, for a literary exploration, or for women's fiction, or even a slice-of-life meditation on bibliophilia as a coping tool, something is always off: too melodramatic, too one-dimensional, too contrived, too histrionic. The Bookshop on the Corner by Rebecca Raisin eBook Barnes & Noble. The title and blurb may lead a reader to think that this book will be about a downsized librarian starting over with a mobile bookstore, which does begin the story.

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