I read this while traveling and found that it went quickly by and also helped the time pass quickly. Zevin's writing style was very fluid and easy. It was a story that kept my attention and had little treats throughout the writing, because here is a story about a book lover, meant for book lovers.

Despite all that, though, I found this story to be very cliche and predictable. Everything I thought would happen did and when the big tragic element was introduced, it went the way that all stories of that sort go. It was basically a very formulaic read broken up by little book recommendations between the chapters.

I'm not sure how much staying power this will have in my memory, but it was nice enough.