April book

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Apparently I only read one book this month. In my defense, I've been pretty busy with work and trying to finish up my graduate degree.

This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson - Non-fiction about librarians in today's world. I was really disappointed by this book. I'm studying to be a librarian, so I figured this would be right up my alley. But the book just didn't really interest me that much, let alone inspire me. The chapters, and even the stories within the chapters, just don't flow all that well together. A lot of stories seem to be kind of pointless - there's an entire (long) chapter on Second Life, which I personally am not that interested in. I'm not sure what point(s) Johnson was trying to make in this book, but I don't think she made them very well. (Besides which, who besides people who *already* think libraries are a good idea is even going to pick up a book like this?)