BOOK REVIEW

TITLE: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

AUTHOR: Abbi Waxman

GENRE: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Women's Fiction, Chick Lit

PUB DATE: July 9, 2019

SYNOPSIS:

The setting is in the quaint Larchmont Village of Los Angeles where Nina’s whole life revolves around. She has a great job in a bookstore, bragging rights as a trivia champion, a planner aficionado detailing her planned day to day life, and a cat named Phil. Life is almost perfect when suddenly a lawyer contacts her about a father she never knew existed, suddenly dies and with a possible inheritance of not just financial matter but also family all living close by! How does an introvert living and absorbed in her fictional life deal with a new extensive family of step siblings, nieces, nephews and more!

THOUGHTS:

Once I started reading this, I could not put it down!! First of all, the setting of the story is in Los Angeles but in a quaint neighborhood of Larchmont Village - I am literally there at least once a week for the best NY style pizza, Jenni’s artisanal Ice Cream, cute shops, vintage stores, the one of the Rite Aids left in town and of course the oldest independent bookstore in Los Angeles, Chevalier. Waxman made LA feel like a small town in a community with its struggling Indie bookstore, week-end farmer’s market and community events. In the book, when Tom said “It’s a small world”, Nina responded “ No, it’s a big world but Larchmont is a small community” where people know and care for each other. As many who would read this who are lover of books, you would be able to relate and love Nina’s life! I mean, wouldn’t we all want to work in a bookstore and have the time for all the bookclubs? In this book, you will be immersed in Nina’s life completely and deeply; how she enjoys the isolation with nose deep in a book reading for hours, to her detailed journaling of her life, and her budding love life. Abbi Waxman is a genius and can transform even the most mundane interactions of our daily lives into something engrossing and captivating, while injecting humor along the way. What a fun and light read that we all need in our lives. I would pre-order this now in anticipation of the release date.

RATING:

5/5