Bought this book over a decade ago and love the plain cover. After reading it, I also liked this book, and I liked the author Fitzgerald himself.
The author started literary creation when he was sixty years old, working as a magazine editor, teacher and bookstore owner. So age really isn't the biggest issue when it comes to what you want to do. So every experience in life is not in vain. Therefore, most of the things described in this small book should come from her real life. There is no world-shattering ambition in her writing. She writes about people and things so casually, but she is extremely pertinent and in-depth.
I accidentally saw that the novel was made into a movie, and I watched it with little hope. Although it was a little different from what I imagined, I admit that I like the movie more. The heroine is better than the book shows. In the novel, the author only used "small appearance, lean and strong, and looked a little inconspicuous".
A lot of plots have been added to the movie: the heroine and her husband fell in love at first sight in the bookstore, the heroine and Mr. Brandish cherished each other at the seaside, the heroine and the little girl said goodbye by the sea...
The novel itself is described very restrained, and none of these parts of the book actually exist. I wonder if Fitzgerald, if alive, would approve of such an adaptation?
At the end of the book, "Lady Green sits on the train and bows her head in shame, because the town she's been living in for ten years doesn't need a bookstore." That ending really upsets me. I prefer the end of the movie. The little girl who doesn't like to read books set fire to her favorite bookstore, which is a parting gift for her favorite Mrs. Green.
An old widower who loves books, a widow who sells books, and a little girl who organizes books. One dies in grief, one leaves sadly, and one grows up alone.
Because of the books, the fates of the three people meet and are changed. Books are that quiet ray of light that unintentionally illuminates the way forward.
Mrs. Green left as a loser, disheartened. Years later, Christine recalled the past in her bookstore: "She achieved her dream and was taken away by others, but people couldn't take her heart away. Something in the depths - her courage"
I think it's a victory. PS: The female villain in it is actually played by Patricia.
As the mother of the male protagonist in "One Day", she is more beautiful than Hathaway, and has an invincible temperament in "Cairo Time".
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