And maybe that was the message of the book? I wanted to give up on this book almost immediately, but made myself read the entire thing in the hopes of finding something redeemable about this character. Of course, I expect this was primarily due to qualification of driving and owning a car rather than my own literary leanings. By Deb Mitchell on 11-06-21. When everything around her is collapsing and going to hell in a handbasket, she does not give up and keeps coming up with increasingly absurd ideas to save her business. Fawn came across as delusional, rude, and self-involved which made it hard for me to enjoy the story as I typically have to like the characters I'm reading about in order to like a novel. The blisteringly honest Holly craves it. Fortunately, interspersed with these emails, there are journal entries that show a different side to Fawn. The book does not fully live up to its title or even book cover but we would certainly recommend Confessions of a Curious Bookseller as a holiday read or a book to pick up that will just offer you a much-needed relief. The new owner of the new shop sends her a very nice email and gesture to have coffee with her. I thought it was brilliant. This is not a cute romance nor a fluffy beachy chicklit. As for The Further Adventures of Fawn?
The book is an epistolary novel and the title, really really made me want to read this. It's kind of like watching a train wreck in slow motion where you wait for the protagonist to wake up and face reality but instead they just dig themselves in deeper. Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo. The dribbling, Florence! If I had to design the cover, I'd pick either a slightly sinister black-and-white gothic looking cover with a dilapidated Victorian building in the background, or alternatively a lurid one with a surrealist picture. "Confessions of a Curious Bookseller" by Elizabeth Green — How Bad Advertising Ruined a Book. 0 current holds with 5 total copies. To others, Maggie's life seems practically perfect - she's lovely, charming, and a successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. The plumber comes to mend a leak, and suddenly Fawn believes they have clicked and is telling her mother she has a date,...... we get to learn a lot about Fawn. By: Kristin Rockaway. ISBN: 9781542025850. Genre: General Fiction.
A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance and recover from the perils of war. Though Fawn has always made the best of things, her situation goes from bad to worse when a hip independent bookstore opens up down the block, creating competition where there once was none. Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population 600. See 14 Book Recommendations like Address Unknown. I realized this when I went down to get Jane Austen's Emma and found that she was covered in black mold. I Still Dream About You. The cover promises something akin to The Bookish Life of Nina Hill but it is most certainly not that and doesn't try to be.
I struggled with her. After watching him eat that soup all night, he really expects me to kiss him? I was drawn to Fawn from the beginning, such a unique and interesting character - we don't all want Goody Twoshoes! As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents to be in surprising moments of generosity and grace. In fact as the book progresses we begin to understand Fawn's peculiar way and appreciate her insecurities that stems from her childhood and the way her father was never open in his feelings towards her.
Then I kept reading thinking I'd get a butterscotch update.
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