James Patterson

61 Cut-and-Paste Essays Author: James Patterson I was so excited for The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, imagining another heart-felt, well researched, and inspired version of Susan Orlean’s forever touching The Library Book. I got the Audible version so I could read through the 61 separate testimonials in time to run our book club and lead the discussion, but I also went ahead and dropped $20 on the hardcover, because clearly, I’d want to revisit this book repeatedly, right? Wrong, sadly. I tried so very hard to love this little misfit collection of samey stories, but I just couldn’t. It [...]