Any member of a book club will enjoy this book. The setting is a book store and involves a missing author, mystery and murder.

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Controlled release

Wow!! Another surprise RABCK from Natrona! I've tried not to join any more bookrings until I get caught up with the rest of my life (she said, knowing full well she never would), so I certainly wasn't expecting any books in the mail. And then I heard that familiar thud that could only be a boxed book hitting the doormat under the mail slot in my front door. Inside the box was a book I'd never heard of by a writer I'd never heard of. I was busy with Bill Bryson's "Short History of Nearly Everything," and looked forward to reading some of that every evening before going to sleep--but curiosity forced me to read just the first page or two of this book--and now I can't put it down; sorry Bill. "Thank you" seem to be weak and faint words, Natrona, for my gratefulness to you for sending me this book. I probably never would have heard of this book, let alone read it, had you not sent it. THANKS!

One of my favorite excerpts (so far): " When a library disappears or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend . . . After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered, while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels" (p. 6).

Kind of sounds like BookCrossing.

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A book sent to me by Natrona in the USA. A book about books, and lots of other things . . . "a novel where even the subplots have subplots" (Stephen King), and "the plot is labyrinthine" (Orlando Sentinel) . . . "Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges " (NY Times Book Review). I'm taking it to our meeting in Amersfoort today so someone else can enjoy it as much as I did.

And I will certainly enjoy it, it looks very enticing. Thank you!

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Tijdens het concert van de Tannahill Weavers. Ergens bij de bar.

Very enjoyable... will release somewhere during an upcoming tour around the UK...