Shakespeare & Company by Sylvia Beach

I was anxious to read this because Beach played such an important role in the American literary community in the Paris of her time but ended up with mixed feelings about the book. The part I enjoyed most was her relationship with James Joyce and the story of the publishing of Ulysses. But most of the book was just a catalog of the people who frequented her bookshop without many personal or even professional details. So much of her commentary was of the "one of the nicest persons I've ever met" type, which she said of almost everyone.