Lately audio-books are the only books I’ve been able to ‘read’ outside of my reading time with the Tiny Human. While I love reading nature books, or books about bunnies, nothing replaces the self care of submerging in a fictional world. I was completely submerged in The Bookshop of Yesterdays. Every time I sit down to write the review, I dive right back in.

The Bookshop of Yesterdays begins with a death, a treasure hunt, a bookshop, and a family secret.

All families have secrets, most often from children.

I will probably never read or listen to The Bookshop of Yesterdays again. It’s a short list, the books I love, but wont read again. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, On Top of Everything, Anything for Jane. I can’t see myself picking them up ever again, but years after finishing them, I pass them by on the bookshelf, and I can still so vividly remember passages, and how I felt, at that time of my life, reading that book

The Bookshop of Yesterdays is on that list because Amy Meyerson isn’t just a fantastic writer, but she also has such an amazing understanding of how humans – families – react to grief. Some of us collapse into ourselves; some of us runaway; and some of us stand our ground, living in spite of the grief, for the love of the person lost.

I fell into The Bookshop of Yesterdays. The characters were rich, the plot twisted and turned,; and I believed completely the world Ms. Meyerson created. I highly recommend it, at least once.

Do you have a list of books you love, but would never read again?