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The Possessed

Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Nov 04, 2014JulieT584 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Elif Bautman's book reminds me of this one funny part of being a librarian: there's this really strong cultural image of <i>librarian</i> that all librarians kind of live with and react to. If you don't take yourself too seriously, you can have a lot of fun with this. Elif Bautman does this with her intellectualism, with her status as a grad student and an academic. She academizes life and applies life to her academics. She is learned and very interesting, and this is highlighted by the fact that she loves her studies but does not take them, or herself, too seriously. I super enjoyed this book. But the last chapter was crap: rough and disjointed.