![]() ![]() I suppose the main point here is that the library acts as a central place for the community the way that other places can’t, but that part of the book really was the weakest by far. There’s also a lot of loving descriptions of food, and quite a few animals (Maggie lives on a farm). ![]() There’s a lot of mentions of specific books in here, as part of Tom’s journey is to learn to love reading (and he reads all over the place, starting with a ton of romance novels). Maggie doesn’t have a family at all, it seems she once had a son. Tom’s mother is dead, and his dad is emotionally unavailable, in addition to money troubles. They sort of adopt each other as pseudo-family. Through a series of charmingly contrived circumstances, sixteen-year old Tom and seventy-two year old Maggie become friends through the library, and the book follows both of them in how the relationship slowly changes them. ![]() Especially since I have forgotten all the characters’ names and just had to look them all up. A bit misleading of a title-it’s less about the library than you’d think-but nice.Īs with many three-and-a-half-star books for me that are just good reads-nothing out of the ordinary or particularly noteworthy, but nothing worth criticizing either-it’s pretty hard to drum up a review. ![]()
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