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KAREN’S BOOK REVIEW

Merry Little Bookshop

★★★★

Reviewed December 30, 2025 · General & Literary Fiction

Shira Schwartz winds up in nowheresville Texas for the holidays. Azalea has a Christmas market and Shira’s obnoxious boss has asked her to man their pop up book shop through December — one month in Azalea should be more than enough! Shira arrives on Thanksgiving and finds herself in a friendly little taco shop (since everything else is closed) where Jonny…

Happy reading,
Karen