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The author Story starts out really strong, then starts to fizzle near the middle, but it's clear the author has a deep, abiding love for books--if her characters are any reflection.
From the first chapter, a paragraph: "The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. 'I'm sure it must be very comfortable sleeping with a hard, rectangular thing like that under your head,' her father had teased her the first time he found a book under her pillow. 'Go on, admit it, the book whispers its story to you at night.'"
From the first chapter, a paragraph: "The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. 'I'm sure it must be very comfortable sleeping with a hard, rectangular thing like that under your head,' her father had teased her the first time he found a book under her pillow. 'Go on, admit it, the book whispers its story to you at night.'"
