Let's fall in love, and you and I

Still alive

Rumi

After reading the bookstores on the island, you will want to read more books and meet more bookstores. After reading, if you don't fall in love with the bookstore on the island, you will still be lonely. Fortunately, after reading it, we know that we are not alone, because no one is an island.

Each of us is a book and has our own story. The owner of the bookstore on the island is A.J. Fickley, a middle-aged man who lost his wife and runs a bookstore. He is eccentric, selfish and indifferent. He has a deep pessimism, and he is too lonely to extricate himself. The bookstore is located in Alice Island, a Victorian-style purple hut. There is a faded sign on the porch that says: No one is an island, but a book is a world.

He despises Amelia, the sales representative of the publishing house who came to promote the bibliography. Amelia was frightened by his shrewdness and stubbornness. He has given up hope for life and the future. He intends to sell Timur, edgar allan poe's first book of poetry, close the bookstore and start retirement. But on that drunken night, his precious book was stolen and became an unsolved case. Later, a mysterious abandoned baby appeared in his bookstore. The abandoned mother threw herself into the sea. He was forced to adopt the child and named her Maya. As an adoptive father, he began to take on various responsibilities. Because of Maya, his life began to change gradually. Because of Maya, he regained the ability to love.

In a lonely and desperate situation, A.J. Fickley became a bridge between him and his wife and sister Ismay, police chief Lan Buys, publishing house sales representative Amelia and adopted daughter Maya. Maya brought a turn for the better in his life, and he found that his habits could be changed for one person. It turns out that love can exert a subtle influence on a person. Because of love, he began to pursue Amelia and finally came together with her. However, at the beginning of happiness, fate suddenly gave him a "glioblastoma multiforme". He began to receive treatment. At this time, he has an optimistic heart, a rich inner world and the ability to love and be loved.

The whole novel is light and humorous, witty and warm, pure and simple. There are several lines in the story. The police officer and his reading club, his wife and sister and his romantic husband, the closed author of "Late Flowers", Maya and her composition contest. Every character has his own difficulties and puzzles in life. The author writes about affection, love, books, bookstores, love and opportunities. Throughout is the bookstore owner's fascination with people and books around him, his desire for reading and his love for life.

The book is humorous and elegant, slightly suspenseful, and it is a literary feast. The most important element of a book is love-love for books, love for people who love books, love for life and love for human imperfections.

The surprise and emotion brought by the bookstore on the island are the company of those books that have been read, and it is also the only bookstore on that isolated island. It is about the changes that books have brought to life, another opportunity for life, and the reasons why we can't refuse to read and love.

This book is warm, tenacious and has strong vitality, and it blooms in an imperfect life. Everyone has the hardest year in his life, which makes life beautiful and broad. In those hard years, only love and books can't let people down.