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The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean, is a woman of many hats. She is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of many books and articles, including The Orchid Thief. Apparently she is also a con artist, because she somehow convinced me to continue reading a book about libraries to the last page. In the same vein, The Library Book just might cross as many genres as hats worn by Susan. First The Library Book is non-fiction. Orlean educates us about libraries in general – including their […]

Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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I think it is safe to say I completely fell off the CBR wagon but as the year draws to a close, and my office currently has a total of five people in, I wanted to try and get caught up on reviews. This seemed like a perfectly reasonable task until I wrote out every book title I still needed to review and realized I was nineteen books behind while still actively reading two other books. So in lieu of complete, well thought out reviews […]

The Library Book – A love letter to libraries

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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This book came into my sight line during voting for the Goodreads “best of 2018” awards and I bookmarked it to read, jumped in the queue at my local library and promptly forgot all about it. When it became available it was a delightful companion to Bird Box (in that, it was not horrifying) and I enjoyed this glimpse into the world of the library, that is so very dear to my own heart. Reminiscent of Devil in the White City in narrative style, but […]

I always thought I’d get farther. I’d like to blame the world for what I’ve failed to do

The Woman Upstairs; Family Matters; The Library Book; The Blank Wall; The Summer before the Dark; Those Who Knew; Ways of Disappearing; White Fragility; Call them by their True Name; Harbor Me by Claire Messud; Rohinton Mistry; Susan Orlean; Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; Doris Lessing; Idra Novey; Robin Diangelo; Rebecca Solnit; Jacqueline Woodson

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The Woman Upstairs – 2/5 Stars I found this book because of a list listing “Famous angry women in books” or something. And it’s true that the lead character and narrator of this book is very angry. I was hoping she’d be angrier and less articulate about her anger in this book. What’s this book about? It’s about a woman in her early 40s who was an artist who is also an elementary school teacher. She becomes friends with the mom of one her students. […]



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