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Original Title:	The Bookstore
ISBN:	147671424X (ISBN13: 9781476714240)
Edition Language:	English

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A witty, sharply observed debut novel about a young woman who finds unexpected salvation while working in a quirky used bookstore in Manhattan.

Impressionable and idealistic, Esme Garland is a young British woman who finds herself studying art history in New York. She loves her apartment and is passionate about the city and her boyfriend; her future couldn’t look brighter. Until she finds out that she’s pregnant.

Esme’s boyfriend, Mitchell van Leuven, is old-money rich, handsome, successful, and irretrievably damaged. When he dumps Esme—just before she tries to tell him about the baby—she resolves to manage alone. She will keep the child and her scholarship, while finding a part-time job to make ends meet. But that is easier said than done, especially on a student visa.

The Owl is a shabby, second-hand bookstore on the Upper West Side, an all-day, all-night haven for a colorful crew of characters: handsome and taciturn guitar player Luke; Chester, who hyperventilates at the mention of Lolita; George, the owner, who lives on protein shakes and idealism; and a motley company of the timeless, the tactless, and the homeless. The Owl becomes a nexus of good in a difficult world for Esme—but will it be enough to sustain her? Even when Mitchell, repentant and charming, comes back on the scene?

A rousing celebration of books, of the shops where they are sold, and of the people who work, read, and live in them, The Bookstore is also a story about emotional discovery, the complex choices we all face, and the accidental inspirations that make a life worth the reading.

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Title	:	The Bookstore
Author	:	Deborah Meyler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 343 pages
Published	:	August 20th 2013 by Gallery Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary

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A wonderful ode to books and New YorkThe Bookstore by Deborah Meyler is a wonderful ode to books, bookshops and New York. Like all good authors Meyler has included plenty of her life experiences and loves and especially a love for New York City. A born and bred Mancunian who after Oxford and St Andrews Universities lived out in New York a city she fell in love with and that comes through in the novel.Esme Garland our protagonist in the story is a 23 year old art history graduate of the world

I have no clue why I finished this book. I did it though. I always feel guilty if I don't make it through an ARC so I guess that prodded me on. The main character Esme..good grief. The woman is living in New York working on her PHD for Gawd's sake. You think she would have a brain in her head. She does not even come close. Let that man walk all over you sister..while you whine that you love him. Make me sick. I so wanted to just say walk away from his ass. You can raise a baby. Quit giving

ARC courtesy of Edelweiss and Gallery BooksUnfortunately I DNFd this book. The blurb sounded great: a woman who moved to New York City to write her PHD and through a series of unfortunate circumstances she starts working in a used bookstore. I expected quirky and sweet. That wasnt what I gotThe heroine bordered on the Mary Sue type, she just let her idiot older boyfriend walk all over her and I didnt have the patience to see if she wised up. The writing style was more about telling then showing

My taste in books is varied, preferring literary fiction most of the time, but I do partake in reading two or three chick-lit books a year. Sometimes I find them shallow and silly, but every once in awhile I find a character I fall in love with Esme, the 23-year-old, British transplant seeking her PhD in art history at Columbia, is definitely one of those characters. Shes intelligent (she would have to be to capture a full scholarship at Columbia), but young and terribly naïve in the ways of the

DNF at page 75 of 352. This was so boring to me. I literally kept nodding off. The writing to me was overwrought, boring, and the character of Esme had no substance to her at all. Reading about a young woman who seems hell bent on staying with a man that does not love her and her trying to force a relationship on him was just not interesting.

(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Gallery Books and Edelweiss.)20-something Esme from England is living in a studio apartment in New York while she does her PhD in Art History at Columbia University when she finds out that she is pregnant.Callously dumped by her boyfriend because the sex wasnt good, Esme decides to not even both telling him about the baby, but unfortunately he finds out anyway and tries to talk her into an abortion,

I enjoyed the story but the main character had no backbone and I needed her to be a bit more. I loved some of the other characters and the story was good but just not quite enough for me.