Books about Books!

I  love Books about Books!   Anyone who calls themselves a reader, loves to read about other readers.  I've read a bunch of them recently.   Here are the most recent;

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpren.  I really liked this one.  It started out a bit slow for me but by half way, i really wanted to know what would happen.  It jumps back and forth a bit from a woman's,  Kit, relationship and eventual marriage to present day.  We know in present day she is alone but not sure what happened.   Meanwhile a young girl , Sunny, is caught stealing a dictionary and her punishment is to spend the summer working in the library.   Kit is the librarian and they form an unexpected friendship.  Eventually they are joined by Rusty who is suddenly a regular hanging out daily in the library.  The book isn't  really about books as much as it is about the library and how it brings people together and is in someways the heart of the community.   I thought the characters were well thought out and interesting.    Kit was so damaged and needed help and these new friends were critical to her getting better.  .  I gave it 4 stars.

.Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her life by Anne Spence   .   I love an epistolary book but this one didn't really do it for me.  It is individual letters to the books or authors of different books.  While some of the letter were funny and i enjoyed the one's related to books i had read, some didn't do it for me.  Not many of the letters made me want to run out a read a book she wrote about with the exception of the Virgin Suicides.  I put that one on my TBR list.  I kept putting this book down.  i would read a few letters and then read another book.  Then pick it up and read a few more.  She does have a real love for books and for that, I gave it 3 stars.

Until next time, happy reading!