Aug 26 2008
“The Romance of Libraries” by Madeleine Lefebvre
In honor of my starting college this week to get my associates degree in Library Science, I decided to review The Romance of Libraries by Madeleine Lefebvre. It was a book that caught my eye while searching the (library!) shelves - a nice pink, cheery color. And who could resist a book about libraries and love?
I wasn’t disappointed - it was a fun book filled with stories about couples who met and fell in love in, at, or around the library. Compiled by Madeleine Lefebvre, they are all true stories and some are quite heartfelt. Most of the romances profiled worked out, but a couple did not.
All of them somehow related to the library, whether it was where they met, where one of the people worked, or where they got engaged. There were even a few marriages conducted in a library. (I am so jealous…)
If you want a light book to read, and you enjoy sweet stories about people falling in love, then you’ll thoroughly enjoy this book. Although libraries and books are definitely a part of the book, they don’t overwhelm it so don’t feel like you have to be a library aficionado to read it. You might find yourself down at the public library more often though (never a bad thing).
Like all compiled stories about the same subject, the stories seemed to run together after a while, and there wasn’t really much depth to any of them (since the stories were an average of two paragraphs long). This just meant that it’s a book you could easily pick up and put down at any time, and probably one you’d want to read in short bursts rather than all at once.
Overall, I give The Romance of Libraries 4.25 stars out of 5.
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