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erainbowd 's review for:
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
I had a whole imaginary book in my mind that I created when I learned of this book's existence. I thought it was going to be a comprehensive look at libraries through time and place, somehow. I made that up from the title. And I was thinking about it a lot because this book's existence made me change the title of the book I was writing. My book had been called The Library Book before I learned that the great Susan Orlean had one of this title coming out. So I made up a great book in my mind, written by Orlean - as the sort of non-fiction adult counterpoint to my book for children. It isn't that book. Not at all. But this a whole other book and it is very interesting and bibliophilic and ranges around through all kinds of interesting alleys and stacks. I particularly enjoyed the stories of the head librarians. And if this actual book suffered from the comparison to the mythical Orlean book in my mind, that is not the fault of this actual book. This actual book is great. And one of my favorite things about it was the back inside cover, with its memoranda of old school librarying.