Maggie Duprès went to California as a young adult, full of hopes and dreams. Years later, she's still in California but her Silicon Valley job has failed with the demise of the tech bubble. Instead, she's whiling her time away with her landlord at Dragonfly Used Books and reading every romance novel she can get her hands on. A second chance at success in the tech field comes her way with an invitation to a book club where Maggie can network... but will the selection of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover change Maggie in more ways than she ever imagine?
THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING is one of those books that you remember for years later. Shelly King depicts the heart of a booklover who has seen her dreams shattered into pieces. The discovery of a beaten up copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover with love letters in the margins sparks a marketing idea in Maggie that blossoms into a life- changing perspective for her.
Shelly King puts the reader through an emotional wringer in THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING. You laugh, you cry, and you even fall a bit in love as Shelly King explores Maggie's world through the lens of a book and bookstores. The secondary characters are fully fleshed out as who can't help but love the landlord Hugo, geeky Jason, and the tech-obsessed Dizzy?
THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING is a book that any booklover will love and cherish. Shelly King shows us the character of used books and the magic that follows them as they travel from one reader to the next. I love how Shelly King captures the beauty of what a used bookstore means to various people, as she shows us the sense of community, love, and even refuge that resides within the walls of the Dragonfly. THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING is one of the best books I have ever read and I recommend it to everyone who loves books.
In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny,
romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling
while
saving a used bookstore.
Maggie Duprès, recently "involuntarily separated from
payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her
days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View
institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay
Area
book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having
to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't
encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition
she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics
Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the
margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What
Maggie
finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and
what
she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and
move readers.
Witty and sharp-eyed in its treatment of tech world
excesses, but with real warmth at its core, The Moment of
Everything is a wonderful read.
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