Nora Seed wants to die, but instead she finds herself in a library where she could live alternate versions of her reality, with different choices to live a life
There’s nothing like snuggling up on the couch while holding a hard copy of a good book and flipping through its pages
The way the antiquarian book business runs, and the pure luck sometimes involved in finding rare books, is a fascinating glimpse into a tough business model
The book immediately caught my attention since I really enjoy these min-biographies which delve in depth into a short, but meaningful time in the subject’s life
I also noticed that children like to read about someone which is the same sex and same age, actually a year or two older is usually preferable
A fascinating narrative while trying to understand John Charles Gilkey, a man with no real job whose only passion is acquiring rare books by any means necessary