The Moment of Everything by Shelly King

The Moment of Everything by Shelly King

17 Oct , 2015

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…What there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another. -D.H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

This book plucks a cord in you, the vibrations of which stay with you for days. There is joy and great sadness in this story, which is mostly mistaken for joy.

Though this had been purchased last December, it sat on my bookshelves till October to be opened and read. TBH, I knew The Moment of Everything was going to be about Maggie rediscovering herself and I wanted to wait till I got in that mood to get into that kind of mood. Really, my purchase had completely been based on the endless rows of books on the cover display. It appealed to the bibliophilic side of me.
The cat you see in there too is Grendel, he belongs to the Dragonfly’s Used Bookstore owned by Hugo, who is also Maggie’s landlord, and later in the book, her employer and later still her partner in the bookstore.
Maggie is fired from her hotshot corporate job. She is messed up and desperately clinging on to the hopes of still clambering onboard into the company with help from her best friend, Dizzy, who is still employed. In the meantime, Maggie spends all her waking hours at Dragonfly, starting out as a customer, devouring one romance novel with bared bosoms on the front after another. Her reason? The women are wrong-willed and rebellious. The rest has to do with the sex in there, of course.
Maggie has never been too successful in her own relationships either, with her ex moving to another state without even asking her to join him after a couple of years together. I think part of the reason Maggie fails at her own romances is because she is completely neutral to mediocre everyday romantic gestures and dates. Reading all those medieval cowboy romances couldn’t have done any good to that.
One day, Hugo presents to her a copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover for a book club she is being forced to attend the next day and her life changes. Dragonfly now has a site to itself with pictures of notes of lost lovers back from 1961, who have communicated their feelings in the margins of that very book.
The Moment of Everything takes us from Maggie holding on to her past to her realizing what happened was the best thing that could have happened to her. She grows, she dares and she dreams, differently now.
This book will be a delight to every bookstore lover and bibliophile out there who understands that books, just like most things in life, just get better with time.
Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore? -Henry Ward Beecher

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