Just a quick post to flag up - unusually - a change of title for a book. Gabrielle Zevin's The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry has just come out in paperback here, newly titled The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
I read it last year and found it fun - it's set in a bookshop and is about a bookseller whose life is in ruins, until one day a 'new arrival' changes everything. It's "a heart-warming tale of transformation and the power of literature. Funny, slick, charming, and upbeat, it can be read in a sitting, and with its small, sometimes unlikely, cast of characters and bittersweet humour, it should bring a smile to the face of every booklover."
'The storied life...' was its name in the U.S. (maybe that's why?)
Posted by: Audrey | 24 April 2015 at 10:34 PM
A charming, memorable book well worth a read. (Prefer the hardback title though, as that seemed quite appropriate.)
Posted by: Spade & Dagger | 25 April 2015 at 08:00 AM
This is on my must buy and read list. Thanks for reminding me.
Posted by: Terra | 07 May 2015 at 08:31 PM
I read it early in 2014 as "The Storied Life," too: possibly a British/US thing? I think you've posted about those odd differences before.
Posted by: Rebecca | 09 May 2015 at 01:15 PM