The Moment of Everything
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Maggie Duprv®s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers.
Witty and sharp-eyed in its treatment of tech world excesses, but with real warmth at its core, The Moment of Everything is a wonderful read.
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Shelly King. (2014). The Moment of Everything. Grand Central Publishing.
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- In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.
Maggie Duprv®s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.
When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers.
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When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley-it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers.
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September 1, 2014
A Silicon Valley woman's life is unexpectedly turned around by her love of books in this debut novel. "Books don't change people's lives, not like everyone thinks they do," Maggie Dupres states at the beginning of this book. In a way, she protests too much. Maggie got her master's in library science in South Carolina before high-tailing it to Silicon Valley with her best friend, Dizzy. Back home, Maggie's bookishness and Dizzy's homosexuality marked them as outsiders, but in Silicon Valley, they find success in the tech world, flying high until Maggie's job is outsourced to India. Hurt and unemployed, she turns to her guilty pleasure, romance novels, which she reads at Dragonfly Used Books alongside Hugo, her landlord and the Dragonfly's owner. When Dizzy invites Maggie to a book club of high-profile businesswomen, the meeting and the book-Lady Chatterly's Lover-mark a turning point. To impress Avi Narayan, the book club's founder, Maggie revamps the Dragonfly's sleepy sales model, infusing it with good business sense, good book sense and a boost from her copy of Lady Chatterly: love notes written between two unknown people in the margins. Maggie scans and posts the notes on social media, they go viral, and their mystery and passion begin to haunt Maggie. As the business takes off and a sultry love interest grabs her attention, Maggie must grapple with where she belongs. King packs many more twists and turns into this breezy novel, and Maggie's guardedness and flippancy make an enjoyable counterpoint to the unabashed community of misfits she discovers at the Dragonfly. This diverting read probably won't change anyone's life, but then again, books never do. Or do they?COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Once an up-and-comer in the dot-com industry, Maggie Dupres has been let go from the company she and her best friend started. Now Maggie spends her days in the Dragonfly, the used bookstore her landlord, Hugo, owns, reading romances and verbally sparring with the store's sole employee, Jason. Everything changes when Hugo gives Maggie an old copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Maggie discovers achingly romantic notes written inside it by a couple named Henry and Catherine. The date in the book is 1961, so Maggie sets out to find out what became of Henry and Catherine while using their love letters to promote the Dragonfly on social media. Though business is soon booming, and Maggie finds a love of her own in the form of a fellow former dot-comer named Rajhit, it isn't long before the real world intrudes with a job offer for Maggie that jeopardizes everything she's come to love. King's charming debut will strike a chord with book lovers who have whiled away many an hour in a beloved local bookstore.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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