The Music Shop

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A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Download The Music Shop author Rachel Joyce – kino-fada.fr The silence at the beginning of a piece of music is always different from the silence at the end The blurb of this beautiful book contained two words that won me over on the spot Music and 1980s I was born in 1985, so technically, I am a child of the 90s, but I think that these two decades share the same spirit of a certain kind of innocence, before the coming of the new millennium and all the gifts it brought yeah, right I m not a big fan of the music that conquered the 8The silence at the beginning of a piece of music is always different from the silence at the end The blurb of this beautiful book contained two words that won me over on the spot Music and 1980s I was born in 1985, so technically, I am a child of the 90s, but I think that these two decade...This is a wonderful novel set in the late 1980s London, that evokes the culture and music of the era, and the economic decline hitting local communities and the ever encroachment of developers threatening the identity of a place, and its people In the midst of the change taking place is Frank, running his Indie Music Shop, welcoming everyone and drawing an offbeat crowd The CD has taken off, but Frank is not interested, preferring vinyl, in which there is a current resurgence Amidst the growi This is a wonderful novel set in the late 1980s London, that evokes the culture and music of the era, and the economic decline hitting local communities and the ever encroachment of developers threatening the identity of a place, and its people In the midst of the change taking place is Frank, running his Indie Music Shop, welcoming everyone and drawing an offbeat crowd The CD has taken off, but Frank is not inter...The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce is a 2018 Random House publication A quirky, but sweet love story wrapped inside a loving ode to music I love stories like this one where a group of people, from various walks of life, all of whom are misfits or eccentric in one way or another, but are kind and giving souls, converge to create a delightful and unique tale of friendship and love The music shop is the absolute perfect backdrop for such a sto...I m somewhere between 4 and 4.5 starsMusic expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silentVictor HugoMusic has always been one of my greatest passions, alongside my love of reading I have the largest iPod Apple ever made, and it doesn t accommodate my entire music collection how can I get rid of a song For me, music is such a trigger of emotion, and a specific song can easily transport me to a time, a place, a special memory So why it took me so long to read Rache I m somewhere between 4 and 4.5 starsMusic expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silentVictor HugoMusic has always been one of my greatest passions, alongside my love of reading I have the largest iPod Apple ever made, and it doesn t accommodate my entire music ...What a delightful and enjoyable read The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce is It doesn t demand constant attention or keep you awake at night, it s just a lovely nostalgic story that makes you feel so happy when reading it, it s almost like you re floating through the pages though the ending did have me in emotional goosebumps The Music Shop is a very character driven novel Set in 1988 the story is about Frank who owns a music shop selling only vinyl records don t mention Cd s He knows eve What a delightful and enjoyable read The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce is It doesn t demand constant attention or keep you awake at night, it s just a lovely nostalgic story ...NOW AVAILABLE 4.5 StarsThere was once a music shop From the outside it looked like any shop, in any backstreet It had no name above the door No record display in the window There was just a homemade poster stuck to the glass FOR THE MUSIC YOU NEED EVERYONE WELCOME WE ONLY SELL VINYL The shop was difficult to navigate with boxes packed in everywhere one looked every nook and cranny had records, although none were classified There were two booths for...4.5I don t care what anyone tells me The future s vinyl,he said.Life has surface noise Do you want to listen to furniture polish Frank is a rumpled older fellow with a large, eclectic collection of vinyl records in a rundown shop in a rundown little side street in a rundown part of London, which developers are eyeing for new housing.Kit is the clumsy kid he s taken under his wing to help out in the shop when he isn t breaking things , and there ae various side characters who also 4.5I don t care what anyone tells me The future s vinyl,he said.Life has surface noise Do you want to listen to furniture polish Frank is a rumpled older fellow with a large, eclectic collection of vinyl records in a rundown shop in a rundown little side street in a rundown part of London, which developers are eyeing for new housing.Kit is the clumsy kid he s taken under his wing to help out in the shop when he isn t breaking things , and there ae various side characters who also do busine...2.5 rounded up A cast of quirky, misfits who are drawn to each other with Frank at the center in this neighborhood in Great Britain in 1988 You might call him the music whisperer with his knack for choosing songs that tend to elevate people depending on their circumstances Frank owns a music store selling only vinyl records, refusing to go with the popular CD His talent for knowing just what music will fix what ails other people is fun to watch as lonely, sad people listen to the music he cho 2.5 rounded up A cast of quirky, misfits who are drawn to each other with Frank at the center in this neighborhood in Great Britain in 1988 You might call him the music whisperer with his knack for choosing songs that tend to elevate people depending on their circumstances Frank owns a music store selling only vinyl records, refusing to go with the popular CD His talent for knowing just what music will fix what ails other people is fun to watch as lonely, sad people listen to the music he chooses for them and then come to some realization of themselves Sadly, while Frank can figure out what strangers need, he can t quite deal with his own feelings I don t know enough about music to really know some of the classical or jazz titles but certainly recognized some of songs This is an ode to music, a sentimental love story, a story of friendship Ho...Barely 3 stars So dull I loved Rachel Joyce s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy She has a talent for delving into deep emotions through quirky characters The Music Shop set off to do the same, but unfortunately I didn t feel like it delivered In the 1980s, Frank runs a small vinyl record shop He is huge and sensitive He has a knack for connecting people with music that soothes their troubled souls Visitors to the shop adore him But vinyl Barely 3 stars So dull I loved Rachel Joyce s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy She has a talent for delving into deep emotions through quirky characters The Music Shop set off to do the same, but unfortunately I didn t feel like it delivered In the 1980s, Frank runs a small vinyl record shop He is huge and sensitive He has ...It s 1988 and Frank sells vinyl records on a small street in a depressed part of town He refuses to sell CDs even when the distributors all threaten to drop him He loves music and is able to match a person with the music they need What he doesn t think he needs is love There s a dry wit to the book The characters are a group of misfits and oddballs and there s humor in their dialog and activities It s also a well written book A book that makes you think When Peg discusses how music is ab It s 1988 and Frank sells vinyl records on a small street in a depressed part of town He refuses to sell CDs even when the distributors all threaten to drop him He loves music and is able to match a person with the music they need What he doesn t think he needs is love There s a dry wit to the book The characters are a group of misfits and oddballs and there s humor in their dialog and activities It s also a well written book A book that makes you think When Peg discusses how music is about silence, you just get it And of course, the silence at the beginning of a piece of music is always different from ...

The Music Shop
  • English
  • 14 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 306 pages
  • Rachel Joyce
  • The Music Shop