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Matthew Sullivan (2) (1970–)

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Fødselsdato
1970
Nationalitet
USA
Bopæl
Denver, Colorado, USA
Anacortes, Washington, USA
Uddannelse
University of Idaho (MFA)
Erhverv
bookseller
teacher
Agent
Kirby Kim (Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency, literary)
Sean Daily (Hotchkiss & Associates, film and television)
Kort biografi
Matthew Sullivan received his MFA from the University of Idaho and has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His short stories have been awarded the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize and the Florida Review Editor's Prize for Fiction and have been published in many journals, including The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fugue, Evansville Review, and 580-Split. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. The author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, he is married to a librarian and has two children.

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Engaging characters (& the bibliomystery angle) grabbed me almost immediately & rarely let me go. Tightly plotted mystery within mysteries all character-driven & essential to the story. The only negative was a nagging want of more detail & Roth on tertiary & some secondary characters, but that would have unbalanced its tightly wound mystery.

FYI I received this ebook via Netgalley.com & the book's publisher free for an honest review.
 
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SESchend | 142 andre anmeldelser | Feb 2, 2024 |
Picked this up because I liked the cover and I'm a real sucker for anything bookstore related. I knew nothing about the actual plot and was surprised to find out it was a mystery - more like two of them.

I found the story interesting (if a little too neat) and the details were just creepy enough while not being creepy enough to make me want to stop reading.




 
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hmonkeyreads | 142 andre anmeldelser | Jan 25, 2024 |
This one didn't do it for me very much. The first half was slow and hard to trudge through (I even switched to audio and that was a terrible mistake; the narrator's reading style was so distracting that it ruined the book even more and I switched back to hard copy). Once I got through the grueling introductions I enjoyed it much more. But still, an easy book to put down and not one I will repeat.
 
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rosenmemily | 142 andre anmeldelser | Jan 7, 2024 |
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs- the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s shelves.
When Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager belongings. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she u earths a long buried memory from her childhood.… (mere)
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creighley | 142 andre anmeldelser | Dec 7, 2023 |

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