Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once.
It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story.
Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives. Hardcover , pages. Published June 23rd by Crown first published April 26th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Little Paris Bookshop , please sign up. As for those who worry about sex and F-bombs, they don't know much about today's adolescents and must not remember their own adolescence.
I want to read a book about travel I mean, not "serious" like Into the Wild , will I enjoy this novel? If you love to travel and have been so fortunate to have experienced France, you'll enjoy it. And if you're a book lover, you'll enjoy mentally check listing the books it references even more.
