The Bookshop on the Corner: A Novel | 
1. I rarely read romances but I love anything by Jenny Colgan for some reason! It may be the settings or it could be the humour?🤷🏻♀️
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3. The variety of Crime/Mystery subgenres is endless. There‘s Police procedural, Thriller, True Crime, Heist, Cozy, Nordic Noir, Suspense, Legal Thriller, Whodunnit, Historical, etc. Not to mention different countries have their own differences.
4. I‘m a complete Cover snob!
#ThoughtfulThursday
pickThis was a really cute read. Not as good as the author‘s The Christmas Bookshop which, in all honesty, was so good I bought a number of this author‘s other books including this one. Nina‘s dream of owning a beautiful bookmobile that she takes around recommending the perfect book to her patrons is a true dream. I just wish more time was spent with the books and less with the various romances. The wrap up felt rushed as well. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
so-soDefinitely a feel good book, but I was a bit bored with it.
pickThis book was a true delight! My favorite film is Local Hero (set in Scotland) and this book brings me back there. Nina, total book lover and librarian loses her job at a library in the city and is totally destroyed. She has a fantasy dream of opening a movable bookshop in a van. The van is in Scotland and she ends up moving there because regulations in England won‘t allow her to park the van anywhere. There‘s the magic of books and later romance
so-soI mostly enjoyed this cozy read. I wished it focused a bit more on the Bookshop aspect of the story instead of the romance aspect, but that's just my personal taste. Loved the Scottish setting, was annoyed by the best friend. I don't know that I am interested in reading any more in the series. They seem to have mixed reviews. ⭐⭐⭐/5 stars
pick4/5 ⭐️s // a quaint little novel about a laid-off librarian who moves to Scotland. overall, I really liked it - but there were some things that irked me. naming books that don‘t exist, after giving incredible plot lines - rude. cussing - out of line with the character of the novel. hating on England - not my vibe. and the best friend was incredibly annoying.
#steamygiveaway @BennettBookworm
My favorite mug of all time got lost in a move so this is my current favorite. ☕️
pick📖 I simply fell in love with this book. I will definitely get my paperback edition. I need to have it on my shelf📖
#jennycolgan #bookbuddy
One of the books I'm reading "got me at hello", I live Jenny Colgan, I have enjoyed every book I have read of her, so far this one is no exception.
Happy reading dears!
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This was so cute! Loved every minute and it got me my second #bookspinbingo I‘m two books away from a third! Will I make it? Stay tuned! @TheAromaofBooks
#currentread while I‘m volunteering at a bookshop that‘s actually on a corner….
Starting this one again.. I partially read this for a book club last year. 🤷♀️
pickThis was such a sweet story. Wonderful cast of characters and I fell in love with both Scotland and Nina‘s Bookshop of Happily-Ever-After. Humorous and a little heart wrenching as Nina, who takes a leap of faith after losing her librarian job, also has to come to terms with love not always being as perfect as it is in her precious books. A wonderful story of love, both romantic and for one‘s community/self. 4/5⭐️ ⬇️
pickI have truly enjoyed all the books I have read by Jenny Colgan. This one is no different. The main character, Nina, bugged me a little at times, but the setting and story and supporting characters kept me in it. For me, her books are a great "weekend by the fire" kind of read. ??
pickOh my I've always wanted to open a bookshop and reading two books with the main character having the name Nine in a life of books I'm thinking this is a sign. This book in more ways than one showed me how books evolve with us during or lifetime and the generations forward. It was a bit slow at times but still a fun read. 4 stars.
Happy St. Patrick‘s Day! #luckoftheirish #clovercookie #potogold
pickMy first ever actual bingo on a #bokspinbingo board! And I might still have time to get another before the month is through.
I LOVED this! It was one of those books where you say to yourself this will be the last chapter, and then you just turn the next page and keep reading. Because really what‘s not to love when a librarian who‘s been downsized escapes to rural Scotland to opening a traveling bookstore?
#joyousjanuary update
I started The Bookshop On the Corner (tagged) yesterday. I just love books about books! And bookshops, booksellers, librarians, readers...😊 I could tell right off that I was going to like this because in place of a traditional introduction or acknowledgements section was a note to the readers section listing all the places you might read this, and the authors pros and cons(but mostly pros) of each. @Andrew65
pickThis was balm for my soul after the craziness of the past week. I‘m looking forward to the rest of the series about Nina and her wonderful van of books.
Oh, Miss Rina! Thank you so much for my goodies. I opened a few days late as I had a bad migraine and was in bed all day and then it was my moms birthday and a busy day at work. This was a very nice surprise and what I needed. I can‘t wait to try the tea tonight and the books are great sounding. I also love the socks! The notepad and the bookmark are fun as well! Thank you for your thoughtfulness. 🥰💕
I hope you get your package from me soon. 😬
"They're not throwing them onto bonfires!" said Nina. "They're not actually Nazis."
"That's what everyone thinks. Then before you know it, you've got Nazis."
Secret Santa swap book from a local group and this is the perfect one to start with!
so-soA light but long read. Or rather it felt long. Nina is a British librarian who finds herself running a bookshop in rural Scotland. This is a love story and a story about finding one's self and place. #femaleauthor #womanauthor #femalewriter #womanwriter #romance #fiction #thebookshoponthecorner #bookaboutbooks #bookaboutreading #harpercollins #scotland
Starting this as a distraction to the election info that has been bombarding me and only promises to get worse.
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*whew* Finally back to decent reading!
pickWell, that was lovely. I have a feeling that none of Jenny Colgan's books will change my life, but it was palate cleansing & just what my COVID brain needed. I will be reading more.
What's your favorite Colgan?
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This is exactly what my #covidbrain needs right now after a challenging first week of teaching. Easy read, lovely setting, interesting characters - it's just lovely thus far. Predictable, but so cozy. #currentread #currentlyreading #24B4Monday
Nina definitely did some soul-searching. The book outline the discovery of her true self. #tarottakeover @ErinSueMreads @Meaw_catlady
pickPerfect light summer read. What book lover has not dreamt of their own bookstore? 😍
pickI have a soft spot for books about readers, and this tale of a downsized librarian finding home, purpose, love as she opens a bookshop in the Scottish highlands was a cozy delight.
pickA charming, finding yourself tale, with a romantic flair. Life long book lover Nina, is laid off from her job after her library is closed. Unwilling to sink to a corporate coffee bar stooge, Nina risks everything to purchase a can so she can make a mobile bookstore. Her plans crumble when she realizes she can‘t set up in her own town. She moves to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, and slowly realizes that is where she always belonged.
pickFinished this one on the beach 🏖 It‘s somewhere between a pick and so-so for me. I love a story about books and the people that love them. I liked Nina. It wasn‘t bad. Just not especially great either.
#doublespin @TheAromaofBooks
pickI‘ve collected a stack of Jenny Colgan books, and my first read was the follow up to this one so I‘ve been waiting for months to finally have Nina as the MC in my hands rather than my TBR. Sometimes a sweet book with likable characters is a little bit of everything.
Hanging out on the deck with Coffee, who we are dog sitting for a few hours, and my #doublespin book.
@TheAromaofBooks
pickI feel in love with quirky Nina. Her love of books was infectious. She was so brave to jump head first onto a path that was uncertain. All of this set in the highlands. Wonderfully lovely.
June Book 4/20 #litsylove
This one is making me smile and laugh. Nina is ridiculously lovely. I can't wait to see how it ends. #litsylove
so-soA quick little read. The story itself was just ok. The romance was just kinda there and I just didn‘t feel invested in the characters. I enjoyed the MC‘s book van more than the two male love interests. I really didn‘t like the guy she ended up with. Ending fell flat for me as well. 2 ½ stars ⭐️ ⭐️½
What I read in April! I tagged the one that was the most fun to read. Working my way through the stack of library books I checked out right before they closed. #aprilwrapup
pickThe audiobook of this was so cute. This is the perfect thing to read right now.
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView !
1. My current read, Good Talk, will probably turn out to be my favorite this month. The tagged book was also excellent, but in a different, lighter way.
2. We think our hearts break only from endings - the love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it - but what about how they can shatter in the face of what is possible.
#Two4Tuesday
pickThis book was so good! Exactly what I needed right now. I mean, how can you go wrong with a story about books, the Highlands of Scotland, and a dog named Parsley?
In normal times, I would probably have read this in one sitting, rather than 3 days, with lots of interruptions. I will definitely check out some of Colgan‘s other books!
5 1/2 hrs
280/700 pages for #EasterExtravaganza
#pop20 #bookoncover
Taking a work break under the Grand Oak! (and inspiration for our neighborhood elementary school‘s name).
I love reading under this tree, and I am patiently waiting for the teens in the shade to move on so I can occupy their spot. 😂
Meanwhile, the wind seemed to stop as soon as Maya started trying to fly her 🪁, but she got it in the air now!
