Stephanie Butland The Lost for Words Bookshop Loveday is more than just an introvert who loves books and works in a used books store. She’s hiding from a childhood tragedy that no one needs to know, and she doesn’t want to discuss, though her kind, portly boss knows enough about it to shelter her and…
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“The Bookshop of Yesterdays” Book Discussion and Orange F.R.O.G. Jam Muffins Recipe
Miranda grew up loving books, especially those she was allowed to take home from her uncle’s bookstore, Prospero Books. On the night of her twelfth birthday, her beloved uncle Billy, maker of riddles and scavenger hunts, finally appeared very late at her house and got into a drunken argument with her mother. That was the…
“The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” Discussion Questions and Apple Crumble Muffins Recipe
A.J. Fikry is a calloused, tragic middle-aged widower who owns a bookstore in New England, but hates change, and most of the newer genres of books. He prefers to be left alone to his frozen curry meals and short stories, and gives a cold, angry reception to the new sales rep for the local book…
“The Princess Bride” Book Discussion and Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Buttercup is an “impossibly lovely” milkmaid living on a farm in the fictional city of Florin. There is a farm boy named Westley who loves her, and says so with every utterance of his famous quote “As you wish.” He travels to America to obtain a fortune so he can marry her, but his ship…
“The Thirteenth Tale” Book Discussion and Orange Ginger Spiced Cupcakes Recipe
A bibliophile named Margaret works in her father’s antique bookshop, also writing small biographies about obscure people long gone. Content in her life, she shockingly receives a letter from one of the most brilliant writers of her time, Miss Vida Winter, notorious for tormenting readers (with her unpublished Thirteenth Tale in a volume of only…
“The Fault in Our Stars” Book Discussion and Bacon Egg Cups Recipe
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green The Fault in Our Stars is a teenage love story about being faced with cancer and potentially dying at a very young age. Wrapped in the sharp, clever humor of the protagonist Hazel Grace are profound thoughts on life, love, books, and all sorts of things she…