Sylvia beach memoir7/6/2023 I read The Paris Bookseller because it was my August book club choice with the added bonus that it also fitted into Paris in July, however that was the other thing that was missing from this book. They simply wandered in and out the store randomly. The famous writers and artists who were a part of Sylvia’s scene never came to life either. ‘Show not tell’ was not a part of Maher’s repertoire, which meant that I never really engaged with any of the main characters. The writing was dull and pedestrian, the dialogue was clunky and the romance came across as being sensational rather than realistic. I was keen to read it thanks to the blurb which told me it had a Paris setting, a bookshop and Sylvia Beach. My response to The Paris Bookseller has been complicated. It was hard not to feel that Paris was the place.
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