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Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop (EBook, 2023, Bloomsbury Publishing) 4 stars

There was only one thing on her mind.

'I must start a bookshop.'

Yeongju did …

Cosy Read

4 stars

I enjoyed this, having picked it up pretty impulsively - one of the glut of books-about-bookshops that have sprung up lately.

Running theme was work, how work relates to your life, and a lot of the themes resonated with me. It didn't really feel preachy or as if it had a point it was trying to make. Instead it presented some characters and their lives - sometimes culminating in a one liner that you instinctively apply to yourself. I enjoyed the format focusing on different characters throughout the book.

There's not much more to it though - so you'd certainly need to be in the right mood to enjoy this.