abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill

The romance started slowly and I rooted for Nina to overcome her suspicion of Tom, a non reader(!) Highest praise: I really did not want it to end. In fact, the entire description of life in Los Angeles was perfection, the jacaranda trees, the east west divide, the traffic, the parking, the wealth. Nina and several other characters share a love of trivia, and the description of the competitive bar trivia contests were hilarious. As a dedicated planner and list maker, I loved the Today is the Day journal entries opening the chapters. Nina’s love of reading and need for alone time felt cribbed from my own brain. It is filled with: millennial humor, fantastic banter, simmering romance, charming family and friend characters and many pop culture references.

That sounds overly serious, but it is not. Perfectly captures love of books and book discovery and a character who struggles with social anxiety all while meeting a family she never knew she had. Loved!! Valentine to Introverts Everywhere!! It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page. It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth.Completely change her name and appearance.

Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is? It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. They all live close by! They're all - or mostly all - excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner, and a cat named Phil. Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own.shell. The author of Other People’s Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best to fly under everyone's radar. She is funny and imaginative, and Bookish lands a step above run-of-the-mill romantic comedy fare.” ( The Washington Post) “Meet our bookish millennial heroine - a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will. “Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.” (Number one New York Times best-selling author Emily Giffin)

Abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill