abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill

A one-night stand was the only fact offered. Nina is also the daughter of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who not only never married Nina’s father but claimed she was not sure who he was. The landlord is at the end of his patience with the bookstore owner’s inability to come up with the rent. Nina Hill is twenty-nine years old, single, a college graduate, a resident of Southern California, and a valued employee at a bookstore on the edge of collapse. Abbi Waxman is a writer with a sharp wit that can cut both ways. Happy New Year, dear readers, and what better way to start the new year than to read Abbi Waxman’s “The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.” A life of books or a real life? Must it be one or the other? This novel can be read on many levels, and although some are laugh-out-loud funny, others are touchingly real. 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.Can the Bookish Life be enough for Nina Hill? 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. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)Ģ. Completely change her name and appearance.

Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?ġ.

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… Waxman’s wit and wry humor stand out. “Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”-#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin

Abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill