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Just finished The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. I know, I know. I should have waited but timing is difficult when you are library dependent. I had to request the book and then you never quite know how quickly you will move up the list. Once I have it, I don't like to keep it too long because I know others are waiting.

Anyway, I enjoyed the book because the author is local and many of the places he mentions are more than familiar. He mentioned a particular meal at a particular restaurant and not five minutes after I read the lines, the sil of the man who owns that particular restaurant called me on the phone. She is a good friend and she and her dh, the brother of the restaurant's owner, are coming over for dinner tomorrow. Unfortunately, a couple of the bookstores mentioned have closed in the past six months. He must live close to us because his neighborhood bookstore is near us as well.

Another thing that seemed a bit dated already, since the book was published in 2006, is that the author says, "the e-book seemed to have died a quick death when the dot-com bubble burst, along with all those other notions that sprang out of nowhere..." Hello?????

Okay. Enough. I just didn't want to forget this stuff by the time we read it as a group. Now I will sit back and wait...and hope The Earth Hums... comes in soon.

Sandra