Book Review: Dear Fahrenheit 451 is a fun little collection filled with a few of your favorite books, a bynch (a typo, but I love the Olde English of it) of books you've never heard of, and various bookish excursions, detours, and rambles, all written in a determinedly engaging and energetic style. Flawlessly subtitled Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks, this is the perfect gift for that book lover, librarian, or odd-to-please relative in your life. As with all good librarians, Spence has an endless supply of varied and accurate book recs in her magic bag and you will find somewhere between several to numerous books you'll want to read, from children's to spicy. I get a voyeuristic pleasure from seeing what other people have to say about books I've read, and our tour-guide librarian doesn't disappoint. She's also excellent at noting the bizarre, dead-end, and why-were-they-published books on the shelves. The one draw-back of Dear Fahrenheit 451 is that in trying to be all things to all people (we readers are a diverse bynch), Spence includes a great number of books that didn't jolt my curiosity meter. But that's okay, plenty did. Unless you and the author really vibed together, you found your long lost other self, or decided that this is your reading list for the next five years, you may not need to keep this one, but it's fun while reading through a little bit at a time. Give it to the other book lover in your life. To top it off, Annie Spence's evangelical pro-library enthusiasm in Dear Fahrenheit 451 was refreshing, invigorating, and made me want to learn the secret handshake so I can join in the dark sorcery of the cultish librarian rituals that I'm now sure take place in the basement stacks after closing time. [3★]
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