Garrett Frey’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

“By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other— not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them… But that afternoon they could see with certainty the kind of friends they would be, and loving that vision was close enough.”

“‘And this is just a shop for the public, he said ‘Wait until you see a college library.’
Inside the heady wood-dust smell of freshly printed books was overwhelming. If tobacco smelled like this, Robin thought, he’d huff it every day.“

This was the moment I knew I’d be in for
a favorite book of the year candidate