Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
I shouldn't have liked Tom Rachman's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. It's literary fiction. There isn't much plot to summarize. I've spent years ragging on literary fiction to anyone willing to talk books with me. (Because literary fiction tends to be very, very dull, for the most part.) But I picked up this book because it begins in a bookstore. I'm a sucker for bookstore settings...
Read the rest of my review at The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.