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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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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.