I checked this book out of the library and promptly forgot about it. It sat in my nightstand for two weeks until I remembered that it was due soon. I thought that I had better at least start it so I could have time to read it if I wanted to.
I picked it up on a Friday night and sped right through it to a Sunday finish.
It’s a tale of crime and books. What are people willing to do to get a book? Especially a rare first edition copy? Yep, they steal, and this book is all about that, focusing on one thief and the bookseller who was determined to find him.
A lot of the action takes place in northern California, so a lot of the places are familiar.
Fascinating. Another recommended book for 2010. (I know I’ve been recommending the past several books that I’ve read. I always seem to find really, really good books to read right when I have a big paper to write. And so it is true for the past several weeks as I’ve been working on my Comprehensive Exam, my last paper for graduate school. And all of these good books have seemed to surface in the last several weeks as well. What a coincidence!)
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