The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen…
This is a book about books. All sorts of books, from Little Women and Harry Potter to Jodi Picoult and Jane Austen, from to Stieg Larsson to Joyce Carol Oates to Proust. It’s about the joy and pleasure of books, about learning from and escaping into them, and possibly even hiding behind them. It’s about whether or not books are better than real life.
It’s also a book about a Swedish girl called Sara, her elderly American penfriend Amy and what happens when you land a very different kind of bookshop in the middle of a town so broken it’s almost beyond repair.
Or is it?
The Readers of Broken Wheel has touches of 84 Charing Cross Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Chocolat, but adds an off-beat originality and intelligence all its own.
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Chick lit for the older crowd. Most of the subjects are 30+, though the protagonist is in her 20's. Lovely story of Swedish girl who travels to Iowa to meet a pen pal of several years. She (Sara) finds out her pen pal (Amy) had recently died. Thus the story begins of Sara's visit to Iowa that ended up changing her life.
So beautiful. I have fallen in love with this town and these people! A slow natural progression of feeling. Nothing is rushed. It has a great small town Midwestern feel. This is just a heart warming book.
