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Title: The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend
Author: Katarina Bivald
Narrator: Lorelei King, Fiona Hardingham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-18-15
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The international best seller. Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden - except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend, Amy, invites her to come and visit her in Broken Wheel, Iowa, Sara decides its time.
But when she arrives, theres a twist waiting for her - Amy has died. Finding herself utterly alone in a dead womans house in the middle of nowhere was not the holiday Sara had in mind. But Sara discovers she is not exactly alone. For here in this town so broken its almost beyond repair are all the people shes come to know through Amys letters: poor George, fierce Grace, buttoned-up Caroline and Amys guarded nephew, Tom.
Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short this is a town in need of a bookshop.
Members Reviews:
A book for anyone who loves books or life or both
This is a wonderful romantic comedy about books, small town America, books, friendship, books, love, books and how to live a life worth reading about.
At the centre of the book is Sara, a gentle, perceptive young woman from Sweden who has fallen in love with books but has never really succeeded in engaging with people, except for Amy, her pen-friend in the USA with whom she corresponds about books and life and the meaning of both. Through Amys letters Sara learns about the small town of Broken Wheel and the people who live in it and a new urge strikes her: to go out into the world and experience things for herself.
Sarah arrives in the USA for her long-planned visit with Amy, only to find that her friend has died. The people of Broken Wheel insist that Amy would have wanted her to stay and move her in to Amys house.
What follows is a delightful story of the world as I would like it to be, where good people help each other to be better people and books expand peoples imaginations and unlock their hearts.
The is a perfectly balanced romantic comedy with lots of funny moments and quite a few moments of Oh, I hope this doesnt all go badly wrong angst. The people in the book are described with compassion and without judgement.
Books are also important characters in this novel. I found myself saying hi to many old friends and being reminded of how much fun it is to meet someone who likes the same books as I do but has a few new ones to recommend. At one point in the story, Sara is sitting surrounded by Amys books. Shes supposed to be sorting them but ends up dipping into each of them. Sara quotes from half a dozen books without naming them and I realized Id read all but one. Like Sara, Ive often found myself surrounded by books and being so dazzled by them that I cant move on.
The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend makes an excellent audiobook.Fiona Hardingham, the main narrator, does a great job in setting the tone of the book. She is particularly good at giving the characters distinctive and appropriate voices. Lorelei King, is the voice of Amy in the letters to that punctuate the novel and change our perception of Sara and the people of Broken Wheel.
This book made my laugh and cry. It made me think about the balance between reading and doing and about how both of them count as living.
