April book

Apr. 30th, 2010 12:28 pm
[identity profile] sonneta.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] christianreader
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?)

Date: 2010-04-30 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eattheolives.livejournal.com
I'm in the middle of reading this one right now. Parts of it are interesting, but I agree with you ... I'm not really sure what the point of the whole book is.

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