The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: March 28, 2023
Format: Paperback - 353 pages
Kindle - 3065 KB
Audiobook - 11 Hours 7 Minutes
Nook - 2 MB
ISBN: 978-1728256214
ASIN (Kindle): B0B4BQXYNR
ASIN (Kindle): B0B4BQXYNR
ASIN (Audiobook): B0BTB55X75
BNID: 978-1728256238
BNID: 978-1728256238
Genre: Women's Fiction
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Disclaimer: I purchased a copy of the book from Authentic Books.
Book Description:
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another.
Anxious, Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden...and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her. Wanting to bring more cheer into Arthur's gloomy life, Sloane creates an impromptu book club. Slowly, the lonely misfits of their sleepy town begin to find each other, and in their book club, find the joy of unlikely friendship. Because as it turns out, everyone has a special book in their heart—and a reason to get lost (and eventually found) within the pages.
My Book Review:
In The Lonely Hearts Book Club, author Lucy Gilmore transports the reader to the lakeside town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to follow a group of misfits who unexpectedly come together and start a book club that ultimately helps them form a bond of friendship.
Librarian Sloane Parker looks forward to her daily banter with crotchety Arthur McLachlan. But after several days of noticing that Arthur hasn't been to the library, Sloane goes against library policy and goes to Arthur's house and finds him in poor health. Sloane's thoughtfulness gets her fired from the library, but what she finds is a group of people who come together to assist Arthur while forming a book club. As they learn that each is dealing with their own individual personal issues, a bond of friendship and support grows among them, and they rediscover themselves, and learn the true meaning of love, friendship, family and moving forward with their lives.
In The Lonely Hearts Book Club, author Lucy Gilmore easily captivates her readers' attention with this beautifully written tale through a seamless and flowing storyline told in the alternating first person narrative from a cast of quirky characters who draw you into their lives with a strong emotional pull, along with their complexities, flaws, fears, heartaches, heartbreaks, longheld secrets, and the love of books. The story has a great mixture of humor and compassion that will engage the reader to follow along as the friends' story unfolds.
The Lonely Hearts Book Club is a heartwarming story that engages the reader to follow along as an unlikely group of misfits form a bond of friendship as they discover that life is full of humor, heartache, family, friendship, books, and second chances.
The Lonely Hearts Book Club is a heartwarming story that engages the reader to follow along as an unlikely group of misfits form a bond of friendship as they discover that life is full of humor, heartache, family, friendship, books, and second chances.
RATING: 5 STARS
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