El Devorador de Libros : A Veces Hay Que Seguir Leyendo Para Pasar a la Accion (Paperback)

from PermaSwooned

Rebecca Makkai can certainly turn a phrase. Much of the book contains an inner dialogue our librarian protagonist is having with herself, and many of her lines made me laugh out loud. I would think: "I LOVE this author....I must read everything she has ever written!!! However, her story does seem...

from Laura400

Found this on a library shelf under "not to be missed" or something like that, and they were right. I loved it; I inhaled it. What a good, funny, propulsive, light but serious and wistful book, especially for anyone who loved reading and libraries as a child. As a bonus, it reminded me of my favo...

from kqueue

Lucy, the daughter of a Russian immigrant, is the children's librarian in small-town Missouri and Ian, a bright ten year old boy, is one of her favorite patrons. From Lucy's point of view, Ian's home life is troubled and restrictive, so when he decides to run away from home, Lucy becomes his will...

from BeckyJG

Lucy Hull is twenty-six and unmarried, a children's librarian in a fictional Hannibal, Missouri. The only child of a Russian immigrant father and a Jewish American mother, Lucy grew up in Chicago, bookish, very slightly rebellious, the inheritor of genetic guilt on both sides of the family. Alway...

from voracious

Lucy Hull is a children's librarian with a mediocre life. She had always thought her life would be more exciting or more fulfilled. How did she get to this point? One of the brighter things about her job, however, is reading to children and helping them select books. One particular patron is 10-y...