Found in a Bookshop: The perfect Autumn read - heart-warming and unforgettable

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There are a real range of reasons that people turn to books when they are compulsorily stuck at home from domestic abuse through loneliness, insecurity, love stories and the inevitable deaths from COVID. The very real aspect of this being set through the pandemic made it quite challenging at times and brought back some of those very weird emotions I know a lot of people felt during such a weird time, but it also reminded me of how much I read at that time and how important books were to me then, when I had nothing else to do but sit and worry. If I have one criticism it is the number of characters introduced, which I found distracting, but I understand that the whole point of the story was about reaching out to the community during lockdown, so I tried to bear with this. A cosy story about the joy of stories, not only the books that are recommended for people who ask but the lives of the different people who receive them.

Though at times this was a bit real and hard to read about Covid pandemic times again, this was such a gorgeous read. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Sometimes we see the person request the book again, we get to learn what happened in the next chapter, sometimes we don’t. I don't think it helped that I've had respiratory issues for the last six months and the descriptions of people fighting for breath were a little too familiar! The book recommendations throughout the story have a wide range of offerings, with a sentence or two to describe why it was added as a possibility of interest and intrigue to answer an individual’s request. Others flit in and out of the book and we get to know their situations and the unique pressures facing each of them at that time. It is not one I could recommend to everyone without explaining the triggers of which there are a lot.

I started writing a very long review of this but accidentally lost it which is probably for the best as I sort of feel that if you can’t say anything nice you shouldn’t say anything at all. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed.

Personally I found it quite a cathartic read and it helped me process some of my lingering emotions around my own lockdown experience. Loved also that so many great books are mentioned and recommended, especially for specific needs, recovering from loss, and adding to wonderful events and hopes for the future.