All the Tropes

Kirkwood was full yesterday. I stopped at a local place to acquire some refreshments and had to park on a side street because everyone else had decided to drive as well. Sunday was not a day for walking in the afternoon.

And since I was parked right across the street from All the Tropes Romance Bookstore, a new-to-me seller of books, I had to go inside.

I do not read contemporary romance. The closest to romance that I get in my regular reading is 19th Century Romantic novels like Red as a Rose is She (Spice Level: Victorian).

But this is a beautiful bookstore and friendly bookseller Emma helped me with two recommendations:

• An Ocean Apart by local author Jill Tew.
• The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig.

I am seven chapters in to The Knight and the Moth and it's compelling. The world building is first class and the characters are fun.

If you are in Atlanta and like books, you should check them out.

They also have a cat.