The Little Paris Bookshop

There are days when I, at least, want to read something light and feel good, that will leave me happier with the world. The Little Paris Bookshop is for one of those days. It is a book about books, about people and emotions.

What reader hasn't had the experience of reading just the right book at just the right time? Maybe, in some other situation, that book would seem trite, depressing or boring. But, that day, it hit the perfect note. This is the central theme of this book: that books heal and can be "prescribed", that a reader may not be at the right moment for a different one. This is the best part of The Little Paris Bookshop.

Despite that charming idea, the author can be a little heavy handed on the moral of the story. The characters are cliched and the story can drag. Rereading it in a different frame of mind, I still liked the rich descriptions but found it emotionally manipulative and I wanted to shake some sense into some of the characters.

Thanks to BlogginForBooks and Netgalley for providing an advance copy.