Play Book Tag discussion

The Paris Library 3 1/2 stars rounding up

Historical Fiction based on a true story about The American Library in Paris, during WWII.

Another duel time-line book (ugh! sorry, so tired of these), where once again the older time line wins, IMO. What I found most interesting about the book is that even though I was enjoying the story, there were very few characters I connected to, and those characters I did like were side characters. An example would be Boris, one of the librarians whose story is not fully told. At times, I really disliked the 2 main protagonist's, Oldie and Lily.

The strongest message of this story: Books are important, Books are special, we all need books in our life!

I thought that the most beautiful thing about this book was how they described readers relationship with books. More important than the two individual stories was the whole concept of the library is sacred and the beautiful writing that surrounded this kind of a relationship.

I agree, Joanne, the older story was great and the newer one was less enjoyable. (For me, the newer story could have been omitted completely and not lost much). My overall impression is: 4 stars for Odile's story, 2 for Lily's, so I gave it 3.