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WIJFR: The Moment of Everything (NS)
I picked up this book because it is quite literally set 2 blocks from my house. The descriptions of Mountain View are accurate, and I recognize each store, restaurant, and park. It's also set in a used bookstore (with a cat). I read any book set in a bookstore (bonus points for the cat). Oh, and it's a signed copy.
Maggie Duprès, 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.
So, that's why I picked up the book in the first place. I'm so glad I did! It was a great read, filled with wonderful and relatable characters. And, OMG, the potential love interest is of Asian Indian heritage. This book is just SO my hometown. Diverse, techy, geeky, and quirky.
If you're looking for a quick and easy read, about people who love books and each other, pick this one up!
Here's the official blurb:
In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.
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 read.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores