Tom has been attracted to Nina for a while and makes a few attempts to get together with her including a hilarious scene where he shows up at her preteen book club meeting and her young readers conclude “ Sister, you need to work on your banter”. Into Nina’s new chaos enters the cute guy from the rival quiz team – Tom. It didn’t matter what hit the fan as long as there were unread books in the world, she would be fine.
Walking into the Los Angeles Central Library to get her first library card, when she was eight or so, was still a memory she treasured…Nina had looked around and realized she would never run out of things to read, and that certainty filled her with peace and satisfaction.
They say you always remember your first time, and Nina definitely did. Nina takes refuge in her books, ice cream, her comfy chair, and her cat as she tries to sort through her new family. Turns out her dad married three times leaving trails of unhappiness in his wake. Over the next few days, Nina gains a nephew (who is a year older than Nina), one brother, three sisters, and an angry niece. Oh my God, she thought, it’s hard to be human sometimes, with the pressure to be civilized lying only very thinly over the brain of a nervous little mammal. Now she is suddenly part of a large, bickering family and it’s just too much she’d rather just bow out. She knew she must have a dad somewhere but honestly had never given it much thought. And then she receives an unexpected visit from a lawyer – her dad just died and left her something in his will. Her team is having a great season until the cute guy from a rival quiz team beats her on a sports question. Trivia quiz night is her favorite night of the week. She enjoyed people – she really did – she just needed to take them in homeopathic doses: a little of the poison was the cure. She’s also a bit of a loner and suffers from bouts of social anxiety. Nina works at an indie bookstore and spends her free-time focusing on her reading, what other people are reading, what her book clubs should be reading, and for a little something different, competing with her trivia team. She was raised by a beloved nanny and that’s okay with her – really, she prefers her own company anyway. Nina Hill is the only child of a globetrotting photographer. I fell in love at first read with Nina and her bookish ways and swoonworthy book shelves. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill is a gem of a book! Abbi Waxman has brought us a delightful heroine in Nina Hill – she’s smart, sassy, quirky, and charming.
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