finished reading

I loved the bookshop setting--and it was a fun plot point that the shop could only sell classic books.  And I loved that the titular character is not a reader.  I loved the diverse characters, in age and race.  The relationship between Maggie and Malcolm checked off the opposites attract trope cleverly.  Maggie would drive me nuts if she was my friend.  Her self-sabotage and waffling frustrated me.  As she settled in the community and started hosting events her creativity and organizational skills shone.  

Without spoiling anything, Maggie's friends don't hold her accountable for the mess she ultimately creates.  That's probably my big complaint with the book.  Otherwise, I enjoyed the secondary characters very much!

From the publisher:

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books.

If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.

When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.

And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.

To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.