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“People oughtn’t to breeze into your life and out again in ten seconds, without leaving even a name behind. As Mr. Dickens once pointed out, we’re all on our way to the grave together.”

A vintage gem. Travel back to 1970's London with Helene Hanff, who is a bit eccentric but if you read 84 Charing Cross Road you already knew that.
Loving it

I’m quite bored. Honestly don’t know if I’m going to stick with it. And btw, I understand this is pretty much a diary kind of storytelling, but I can’t believe she couldn’t clean it up a bit to be more of a professionally written book.

I read 84 Charing Cross Road years ago and got it from the library to reread. This time it did not charm me as much. So today I tried Hanff’s memoir of her trip to London to meet the correspondents of 84. And I am finding it a fun, relaxing read—and enjoying London with Hanff.