The Moment of Everything, Shelly King
The Moment of Everything, Shelly King
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The Moment of Everything

Author: Shelly King

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2014

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

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.
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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ionia on July 25, 2014

This is truly a book for book lovers. The atmosphere and setting of a used book store is so well defined in these pages that you'd almost swear you could smell that kind of dusty, old paper smell that you get in a real book store. To be honest, in the beginning I wasn't completely enthralled with th......more

Goodreads review by Marcela (BookaholicCat) on September 03, 2014

Originally posted at The Bookaholic Cat 4 ½ Stars Maggie Duprès lost her job after the software company she founded with her best friend shipped her work to India. Now, she’s in between jobs and without a clue about what to do with her life. She has some savings, but they are being depleted by the day......more

Goodreads review by Ренета on September 09, 2024

3,5* Романът е изтъкан от любов към книгите. Авторката сякаш повече разбира тях, отколкото човешките взаимоотношения. Създала е трудна героиня, която не е наясно със себе си и е изпаднала в депресия след загубата на престижната си работа. Маги е отчаяна и няма сили за нищо друго, освен да чете любовн......more

Goodreads review by Terka on October 22, 2015

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Quotes

"If the cast of Girls moved to the Silicon Valley and got tech jobs, if the correspondence in You've Got Mail took place in the pages of a used book, you might find The Moment of Everything at this hypercool intersection of retro appeal and modern smarts. Shelly King has drawn a perfect heroine for this very moment -- snarky enough to make you laugh and yet satisfyingly full of hope and soul. Thoroughly rooted in the now, but achingly in love with the past, The Moment of Everything is a book lover's book -- a warm-hearted illustration of the continuing relevance of books and bookstores in our modern culture that's sure to make readers fall in love."—Lydia Netzer, author of Shine, Shine, Shine and How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

"Populated with an endearing, eccentric cast of characters, and told with sharp Southern humor, The Moment of Everything is a gift for those who believe in the magic of bookstores...and in the power of books."—Tracy Guzeman, author of The Gravity of Birds

"Shelly King is among my all-time favorite writers. Her prose brims with beauty and her plots always pack a well-earned punch."—Lolly Winston, author of Good Grief

"In Shelly King's charming novel, a young woman finds love letters in an old copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Her quest to discover their source leads her in and out of the many worlds of Silicon Valley, and the surprising twists and turns of love and self-discovery. We're the lucky readers who get to come along for this delightful ride. Ms. King writes with humor, passion and great intelligence."—Ellen Sussman, author of the New York Times bestselling novel French Lessons and The Paradise Guest House