*** Winner of the 2012 Independent eBook Award for best Literary Fiction! ***Village Books is a local institution...which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.The manager's addiction to WebMD has turned him into a closeted hypochondriac. The cashier's husband may have just gone AWOL with a small arsenal of fragmentary explosive devices. The fiction lead is buying urine on the black market. Trying to hold it all together is the store's long-suffering assistant manager, who is spinning his wheels in retail while he waits for something better to come along.That something better may be Leah Dashwood, an aspiring actress and new assistant manager with an ambitious plan to transform the store and its staff in a way that will ...
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1. Have a Scrumpy Jack on me
I'm neither a writer nor a reviewer so please excuse my lack of eloquence. Happily, eloquence is not a problem for this author. Village Books is full of interesting characters whose conversation is both witty and droll. However, this isn't just a look inside of the goings-on of a bookstore - there's also a progressive story line.
I love book stores and am very glad I stopped in to visit this one. I really felt I got to know the characters and their stories by the satisfying end of the book.
The book is well written and appears to be professionally edited. I "purchased" it as a free and un-reviewed book based on the product description. Having read it I can honestly say that this book is worth purchasing for $ and I will recommend it.
(Edited to remove apology to author for quality of my review)
2. Who is Craig McLay and why hasn't he written anything else?
I think I got this book free for Kindle. I kind of wish I had paid for it. The experience has been so good that I feel guilty getting it for free. Besides, somewhere the author is, I hope, hard at work on his next book, and someone has to supply him with wings and Italian reds.
It's hard to characterize this book. I'm a fan of a lot of different genres, many of which don't seem to go together well. I love sexy women's mysteries like those by Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton. I also like gritty police stories, like those by Joseph Wambaugh and Michael Connolly. I love Neil Gaiman and Robert Heinlein and Dean Koontz when he was in his prime. I love Coben's Myron Bolitar Series and Repairman Jack. This book isn't anything like any of those. It's sort of Donald Westlake and sort of Carl Hiaasen, and yet it's entirely new and different and funny and touching and captivating.
This is a book about smart, funny people. The characters have depth and interests...
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Do not read this book in the subway!
Read this book on the subway and you risk terminus interruptus by men in white coats.
The last time I read a book this funny was late in the early part of the last century. I had graduated from short trousers and a ticket to the adult library had introduced me to the writings of P.G. Wodehouse.
In "Village Books" one does not browse, one delves. Each character has a non-stereotypical idiosyncrasy ranging from Sebastian's inventive urine samples for his bail to Willard's exotic product lines in receiving.
If I say too much there is a risk of spoilers. Unlike those who downloaded this book free of charge initially, I purchased my copy when a Facebook advertisement led me to the blurb. Do as I did. Buy this book. Read this book. But first, have you taken your cardiac medication? Are you at risk of a kidney leakage? Are you in the subway? Be warned - this book contains an incurable strain of laughtus hystericus and it is highly contagious.
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