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This was very interesting and also validating! From the first chapter, I was afraid this book would end up being too...obvious? for me to enjoy as a librarian--there's a lot of impressed exclamation over all the weird/cool librarians do, and I was like yeah I KNOW SUSAN. Which of course I know that the vast majority of people reading this aren't librarians and it's great for them to learn more about libraries! But I just feared it would get a little tiresome. But luckily the book veers off in a
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I'm surprised I didn't like it more because of the subject matter. It's well written and researched, but I wasn't as engrossed as I'd expected. The mystery regarding the suspected arsonist ended on an anticlimactic note.
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Very well researched history of the LA library fire. If you love libraries, you’ll find this book interesting.
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