As part of my “Books about Books challenge, I read this one, reviewed by a blogging friend.
I can’t remember where I heard about this book. I think it may have been after I read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and I had a brief fascination with epistolary novels. This one is wonderful, quick and cutting to the soul. It was a great pool-side read for my recent vacation.
Cover image via Goodreads
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Summary from Goodreads:
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.
I didn’t expect such a short book to have…
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I can see that this is a book I read too fast, when I was too young. I’ve recently been inspired to reread My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell after watching the Durrells in Corfu series. This will be another book I read TFTY (self-created acronym for this phenomenon). I loved both of these books when I read them, but I couldn’t really tell you why and I couldn’t pick out my favorite parts.
Maybe I need to do more rereading.
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I loved the Durrells series on PBS. It was hilarious. Every character is a hoot!
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TRTY–The first time_____???
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