{"id":569,"date":"2014-02-21T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2014-05-07T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:47:25","slug":"the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fict-zevin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-592\" alt=\"A.J. Fikry\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fict-zevin.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;ve ever worked in a bookstore (or wondered what kind of exotic creatures work in bookstores),\u00a0 <em>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry<\/em> is a good place to start. Our title character is the depressed, widowed owner of an indie bookstore on a little island off the coast of Massachusetts. He&#8217;s let his social circle and life shrink down to almost nothing. He has only his work and his books, one rare copy of Poe in particular. Don&#8217;t let the curmudgeonly facade keep you away, however. A.J. is caustically, terribly funny. He has warmth and a touching humanity that is awakened by an unusual package that&#8217;s left at his store. Have we seen echoes of this story elsewhere? Probably. Does it matter? Not at all. Author Gabrielle Zevin has created a wonderfully structured novel around superbly real characters who like books as much as the reader. Reading may be a solitary activity, but A.J.&#8217;s life and Zevin&#8217;s book ultimately demonstrate the simple truth that literature can unite us and enrich any life, storied or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever worked in a bookstore (or wondered what kind of exotic creatures work in bookstores),\u00a0 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is a good place to start. Our title character is the depressed, widowed owner of an indie &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}