Dear Reader

From being inspired to move to Paris by Flaubert's Parrot, to starting a book blog after reading How To Be A Woman, this gentle, cozy book reaffirmed for me the unique magic of a reader's life. Told as a kind of bookish memoir with topical recommendations at the end of each chapter, I ate this up rather quickly and was left with a desire to 1) read all the books!, 2) move to Cornwall, and 3) open up a bookshop. My one caveat is that the author's reading recommendations skewed pretty Anglo- and European-centric. Overall, it was an enjoyable book about books.