Meet Eudora Welty, better known as Dora. Dora is 35 years
old, single, unemployed, and living in L.A. Everything in
her life has fallen apart, except for her love of books.
When things get tough for her, she escapes into a book and
lives in that world for days at a time. Dora's family and
friends worry about her, but she insists she's happy. That
is until she meets a handsome man who works in her local
bookstore. She dreams about having the courage to talk to
him.
Dora grew up with an alcoholic mother and an absent
father. She sees herself turning into her mother between
her drinking and her book escapism. This is the last thing
Dora wants, so she decides to take control of her life.
Dora confronts her fears and ghosts of her past. In the
mean time, love falls into her heart without warning. But
is it love, or just an intense literary connection?
Readers will love the numerous references to famous
authors and books scattered throughout this novel. This
book was a delightful read that I devoured on a rainy
Saturday afternoon. I found myself relating to Dora's idea
of complete bliss, doing nothing but reading for hours on
end. Dora's story reads like a conversation with a close
friend. At times readers will think Dora is a real person
and your heart will go out to her.
The word bibliophile is used to describe someone obsessed
with reading and collecting books. In this day and age, I
feel people use this term to describe anyone who
reads ''too much'' to their tastes. Jennifer Kaufman and
Karen Mack defend the closet bibliophile and show there is
no shame in being a complete bookworm.
Dora's character is intelligent, passionate, and insecure.
She isn't running around town with hunky men driving
BMW's. She's hiding out in her apartment with her books.
Dora wants a man who shares her love of books and truly
loves her with all his heart.
Will Dora find the perfect man or will she settle for
less? Will Dora finally get her life together and survive
living in L.A.? LITERACY AND LONGING IN L.A. is a
delicious literary feast that all bibliophiles will be
sure to enjoy.
Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing
on books--reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice
rippers, for hours and days on end. In this wickedly funny
and sexy literary debut, we meet the beguiling, beautiful
Dora, whose unique voice combines a wry wit and
vulnerability as she navigates the road between reality and
fiction.
Dora, named after Eudora Welty, is an indiscriminate book
junkie whose life has fallen apart--her career, her
marriage, and finally
her self-esteem. All she has left is her love of literature,
and the book benders she relied on as a child. Ever since
her larger-than-life father wandered away and her
book-loving, alcoholic mother was left with two young
daughters, Dora and her sister, Virginia, have clung to each
other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages
instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way
Virginia made the leap into the real world. But Dora isn’t
quite there yet. Now she’s coping with a painful separation
from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling
inheritance, and attracted to a seductive book-seller who
seems to embody all that literature has to
offer--intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her
problems.
Joining Dora in her odyssey is an elderly society
hair-brusher, a heartbroken young girl, a hilarious
off-the-wall female teamster, and Dora’s mother, now on the
wagon, trying to make amends. Along the way Dora faces some
powerful choices. Between two irresistible men. Between
idleness and work. And most of all between the joy of
well-chosen words and the untidiness of real people and real
life.
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