![]() ![]() Because of books, Nina is very good at Trivial Pursuit and is a key member of a wildly successful Trivia Team that competes at local bars. We are not surprised that as an adult, Nina is most comfortable with her own company, save for a small circle of friends, books, and a cat named Phil. Her nanny filled her life with books, and those books saved Nina from an otherwise isolating childhood and young adulthood. It doesn’t sound like much of a life, does it? Here’s where books come in. Nina’s mother’s profession took her around the world, and most of Nina’s parenting was in the loving care of a book-loving nanny. A one-night stand was the only fact offered. ![]() Nina is also the daughter of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who not only never married Nina’s father but claimed she was not sure who he was. ![]() The landlord is at the end of his patience with the bookstore owner’s inability to come up with the rent. ![]() Nina Hill is twenty-nine years old, single, a college graduate, a resident of Southern California, and a valued employee at a bookstore on the edge of collapse. Abbi Waxman is a writer with a sharp wit that can cut both ways. Happy New Year, dear readers, and what better way to start the new year than to read Abbi Waxman’s “The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.” A life of books or a real life? Must it be one or the other? This novel can be read on many levels, and although some are laugh-out-loud funny, others are touchingly real. Can the Bookish Life be enough for Nina Hill? ![]()
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