New Release & Review:  The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman @BerkleyPub

New Release & Review:  The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman @BerkleyPubThe Bookish Life of Nina Hill on July 9, 2019
Genres: Contemporary Romance
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Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell.
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, and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.
When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. 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. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?
Nina considers her options.
Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)
Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)
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. 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.


This book felt like a corky themed TV show narrated by inner monologue, giving you a first had look at a hardcore bookworm.

Told in third person, we learn about Nina Hill’s world of books, her journey through life and finding herself along the way. I think most readers will find a little of themselves in Nina. Throughout the story, Nina learns about herself and the world around her. I may have picked up this read solely based on the cover, but overall I found Nina’s world enjoyable. The story did take on a slower pace at times but after powering through, I was able to see the growth she experienced and even learned a little about myself along the way.


So, tell me more about this Waxman bird.

Abbi Waxman was born in England in 1970, the oldest child of two copywriters who never should have been together in the first place. Once her father ran off to buy cigarettes and never came back, her mother began a highly successful career writing crime fiction. She encouraged Abbi and her sister Emily to read anything and everything they could pull down from the shelves, and they did. Naturally lazy and disinclined to dress up, Abbi went into advertising, working as a copywriter and then a creative director at various advertising agencies in London and New York. Clients ranged from big and traditional, (AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, IBM, American Express, Unilever, Mercedes-Benz) to big and morally corrupt (R. J. Reynolds) to big and larcenous (Enron). Eventually she quit advertising, had three kids and started writing books, TV shows and screenplays, largely in order to get a moment’s peace.

Abbi lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, three dogs, three cats, a gecko, two mice and six chickens. Every one of these additions made sense at the time, it’s only in retrospect that it seems foolhardy

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