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84, Charing Cross Road
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Every now and then I see this book appear on my feed so after a while I decided to give it a go and shelved it. It's high time I read it!
In this non-fictional read, what started first as a search for old and out-of-print books during the postwar, it later become a long distance friendship between Helene and Frank. Throughout the exchange of letters, they built a 20 year-old long distance relationship, which reminds us human relationships can -at times- occur in odd and yet incredible ways.
This also shows us that when solid, a true friendship can endure good and bad times and last for a lifetime.
I particularly feel a little nostalgia for a time in which physical letters were quite a thing. I guess the Internet, technology and all can also survive the passing of time, but not as glamorously as such exchange once was.
And once again, the magic of book-reading made my imagination visualize everything from above.
Should you give it a go? Please do!
In this non-fictional read, what started first as a search for old and out-of-print books during the postwar, it later become a long distance friendship between Helene and Frank. Throughout the exchange of letters, they built a 20 year-old long distance relationship, which reminds us human relationships can -at times- occur in odd and yet incredible ways.
This also shows us that when solid, a true friendship can endure good and bad times and last for a lifetime.
I particularly feel a little nostalgia for a time in which physical letters were quite a thing. I guess the Internet, technology and all can also survive the passing of time, but not as glamorously as such exchange once was.
And once again, the magic of book-reading made my imagination visualize everything from above.
Should you give it a go? Please do!
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Jan 16, 2023 09:37PM
I love this one & re-read it often, hope you enjoy!
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It's a beautiful book!
I need to read this, because my mom is always talking about how much she loves this book. I think it would be nice to be able to talk to her about it.
I agree, Rachel! Although the book is really the exchange of their letters during those 20 years you can notice how their relaionship grows and extends in spite of the distance.
Lovely review, Ruben. Oh, how I miss the days of physical letters and that feeling of opening them.
