In addition to still grieving his wife's death from a few years ago, his store, Island Books, is seeing an exponential decline in sales. Fikry follows a bookstore owner (the titular Fikry) whose life hasn't turned out the way he had initially planned. Starring Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, and David Arquette, among others, The Storied Life of A.J. In fact, Canosa delivers an adequate adaptation of the original novel, incidentally written by Zevin as well, effectively bottling the key sensibilities that made her book the New York Times Bestseller that it was when it was published in 2015 and turning it into a deeply emotional portrait of life and love. This isn't, of course, to say that the film by director Hans Canosa and writer Gabrielle Zevin is necessarily bad. Fikry is yet another case of the book being definitively better than the movie. I adore these 9 books, but I easily could have listed 90 from the app.As with many past book-to-film adaptations, The Storied Life of A.J. I put the app to the test by searching the app for my past and current favorites-the ones I find myself recommending all the time.

I tried out that feature by curating two of my own: Books I’m Dying to Read and Modern Mrs Darcy Recommends.įor a subscription service, what I really care about is the selection. If you don’t know what you want to read, start with these popular titles, explore by genre, get personalized recommendations, or view curated lists. If you know what you’re looking for, the search feature is easy to use. (I usually don’t read books on my iPhone, but I forgot to bring a book along to an appointment last week, and was grateful I could continue reading my book-in-progress with Oyster’s easy syncing capability.) The app is easy to navigate, and my books looked good on my iPad and iPhone.

I downloaded the app-which is accessible on iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Nook HD, and the web-and promptly got down to reading. I signed up for a free trial a few weeks ago and was genuinely impressed with what I found.

They just added Pottermore, which means you can read the 7 Harry Potter books and the 3 Hogwarts library books with the app. Right now, Oyster has agreements with three of the Big 5 publishing houses (Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Macmillan). (The name Oyster was inspired by the famous Shakespeare line, “the world’s mine oyster,” because with the app, the world is yours for the reading. (And you’ve been asking for my thoughts-sorry to keep you waiting!) It’s all you can read, for $9.95 per month: subscribers gain instant access to over a million books in every genre from classics to new releases. Ever since Oyster launched their subscription-based reading app, which they winningly describe as “Netflix for books,” back in 2013, I’ve been meaning to give it a try.

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