![]() ![]() ![]() Even more of an emotional turn when he returns home a few weeks later to find a baby named Maya alone in his shop with a letter asking him to keep her. ![]() owns one that he sometimes rescues from locked glass case and stares at and talks to while he drinks.Īwaking one morning from a drunken stupor to find Tamerlane stolen, A.J.’s life takes a dramatic turn. Not even the extremely rare copy of Tamerlane, the first work published by Edgar Allen Poe, a poem attributed to “A Bostonian.” Very rare because only 50 copies were ever printed. He is even rude and mean to the new book rep, Amelia from Knightly Press, even though she has taken two buses and a ferry to make her way to him. ![]() His shop, Island Books is suffering financially because of his demeanor. But the emotional, angry, obstinate, irritable, disagreeable age of a man who has lived 90 years of misery. This is a magical book for book nerds like me.Ī.J. I fell in love with the writing style, with the story line, with the characters. When I finally got around to opening the cover and reading the first page, I was enamored. (It’s a rather long list.) But for some reason, I had been putting it off. Fickry by Gabrielle Zevin, on my “to read” list for a while. I have had this book, The storied life of A.J. ![]()
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