The Little Library
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Elliott Thompson was once a historian with a promising academic future, but his involvement in a scandal meant a lost job, public shame, and a ruined love life. He took shelter in his rural California hometown, where he teaches online classes, hoards books, and despairs of his future.
Simon Odisho has lost a job as well—to a bullet that sidelined his career in law enforcement. While his shattered knee recovers, he rethinks his job prospects and searches for the courage to come out to his close-knit but conservative extended family.
In an attempt to manage his overflowing book collection, Elliott builds a miniature neighborhood library in his front yard. The project puts him in touch with his neighbors—for better and worse—and introduces him to handsome, charming Simon. While romance blooms quickly between them, Elliott’s not willing to live in the closet, and his best career prospects might take him far away. His books have plenty to tell him about history, but they give him no clues about a future with Simon.
Customer Reviews
Good start by the author.
Good story but a little too roundabout.
From a small ideas, big things happen.
Rating: 5 Stars
I have a smile on my face. Yes, a real smile. This book is a gem with a lovely ending. It’s about a man who builds a community library in front of his house, simply to gave away some of his enormous collection of books that threaten to take over his house. That’s the plan anyway.
What happens is so much more. His life, which tends towards the grey, begins to include some colour until his life is nothing but bright, hopeful and fulfilling all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow colour.
The characters are so well drawn that I could see them and feel them; not just the main characters but the secondary ones too. They all have heart. Simon, especially.
And not to forget Ishtar who is adorable. I really loved her many and varied views on life and living with Elliott. She really does deserve a fan club.