Matthew Sullivan (2) (1970–)
Author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
For other authors named Matthew Sullivan, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
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Works by Matthew Sullivan
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1970
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Denver, Colorado, USA
Anacortes, Washington, USA - Education
- University of Idaho (MFA)
- Occupations
- bookseller
teacher - Agent
- Kirby Kim (Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency, literary)
Sean Daily (Hotchkiss & Associates, film and television) - Short biography
- Matthew Sullivan received his MFA from the University of Idaho and has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His short stories have been awarded the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize and the Florida Review Editor's Prize for Fiction and have been published in many journals, including The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fugue, Evansville Review, and 580-Split. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. The author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, he is married to a librarian and has two children.
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Picked this up because I liked the cover and I'm a real sucker for anything bookstore related. I knew nothing about the actual plot and was surprised to find out it was a mystery - more like two of them.
I found the story interesting (if a little too neat) and the details were just creepy enough while not being creepy enough to make me want to stop reading.
I found the story interesting (if a little too neat) and the details were just creepy enough while not being creepy enough to make me want to stop reading.
This one didn't do it for me very much. The first half was slow and hard to trudge through (I even switched to audio and that was a terrible mistake; the narrator's reading style was so distracting that it ruined the book even more and I switched back to hard copy). Once I got through the grueling introductions I enjoyed it much more. But still, an easy book to put down and not one I will repeat.
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs- the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s shelves.
When Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager belongings. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she u earths a long buried memory from her childhood.… (more)
When Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager belongings. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she u earths a long buried memory from her childhood.… (more)
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FYI I received this ebook via Netgalley.com & the book's publisher free for an honest review.