REVIEW: `Book People' by Paige Nick gets thumbs up from Mandy Wiener
Mandy Wiener reviews ‘Book People’ by Paige Nick, who runs the Facebook group 'The Good Book Appreciation Society’, which she expertly turned into source material.
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702's Relebogile Mabotja and Mandy Wiener (702 and CapeTalk) chat with Paige Nick about her laugh-out-loud novel 'Book People'.
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Everyone is talking about `Book People', says Wiener.
It was recently released at book festivals at Franschhoek in the Western Cape and Kingsmead in Gauteng.
Nick runs the Facebook group, 'The Good Book Appreciation Society', where people go to review books and share recommendations.
Wiener says the book is based on the drama of that group. Although she says it must be fictionalised because the group is quite well-behaved.
Paige says Wiener may have missed about 5% of posts. She says things can get heated and out of control on the page when there are topics like Trump and Musk or Israel and Palestine.
"Then there've been a few small instances where authors haven't taken bad reviews well. So I took this kind of behaviour and I escalated it."
- Paige Nick, author - Book People
Mabotja said the book could then be described as fiction with a sprinkle of non-fiction.
Nick agreed and added that it's a quick, enjoyable read.
"I had such a good time reading this book. It was excellent writer avoidance, author avoidance for me. I did tell our shared publisher that."
- Mandy Wiener
`Book People' is available now at bookstores across South Africa.
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