![Original Japanese cover of A year spent meeting 70 people on a dating site and recommending books that would suit them](https://muse.cymru/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bookshopWoman-Japan-square.jpg)
The Bookshop Woman
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada is a book that does what it says on the cover. Its original Japanese title, 出会い系サイトで70人と実際に会ってその人に合いそうな本をすすめまくった1年間のこと, translates roughly as...
![Cover of Death's Autograph by Marianne Macdonald.](https://muse.cymru/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/deathsAutographCoverSquare-1024x1024.jpg)
The Dido Hoare Mysteries (1997-2006)
I had forgotten how much I enjoy the Dido Hoare mysteries until I re-read two of my favorites (Death’s Autograph and Die Once ). Dido Hoare...
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Havana Fever [La neblina del ayer]
“Friendship, memories and a few books.” In Havana Fever , Leonardo Padura’s detective Mario Conde moves through a world where bookshops and libraries have disappeared....
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The Bondage of Ballinger
The Bondage of Ballinger is a bookstore novel about the life of a bibliophile in New England late in the 19th Century. Thomas Ballinger is...