This is my monthly Read With Me project and I hope you’ll join me! No commitment. No wine and cheese parties. If you want, simply read the book for the indicated month (see image to left) and then look for a post about the book here on the blog around the 15th of the following month.

I won’t write a formal review. I’ll just share what I found compelling (or not) and I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments (but again, no commitment).

Ok, so here we go: The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs.

This post is going to be short and sweet. The Lost and Found Bookshop was disappointing. The characters were one dimensional. The plot was unoriginal. It was poorly written. I guess it was true to form for the typical Rom Com—girl finds herself in distress, girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, girl must save herself and her “Grandy” from distress, she is saved. With the right boy. And they live happily ever after.

This is not the book I thought it would be. As I said in my introduction to this project, I’m a pretty good chooser of books (if I do say so myself), but I can’t guarantee that every book I choose will be good. Some books just don’t pan out. This was one of them. I was trying to remember why I’d chosen it (I do try to make choices based on good recommendations), and I think it was because of this quote on Amazon:

"A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and, most importantly, of what it means to be present in the here and now. Full of the love of words, the love of family, and the love of falling in love, The Lost and Found Bookshop is a big-hearted gem of a novel that will satisfy and entertain readers from all walks of life. Lovely!" -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing In The Rain

I loved The Art of Racing the Rain. I recommend that—but I don’t recommend Stein’s taste in books. Enough said! On to next month’s book!