Lily reviewed Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
Review of 'Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I bought this mostly for the beautiful cover while away in Edinburgh. I have to say I feel the blurb was a bit misleading: "How a bookseller inspired a nation... Feeling like a woman on the run, she went home and opened a bookshop against all the odds" (paraphrasing). The book itself is actually a daily diary of things happening at the shop, orders of merchandise, customers coming in. It's cozy and there are some interesting family stories. The diary is from early 2021 so it is partially a memoir about the second wave of COVID and how that affected the shop. I would have appreciated a lot more about her life before the bookshop, what led her to go home and open it, and how she actually went about it. The daily notes are nice but not why I actually bought the book.