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The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
The Personal Librarian, co-authored by Victoria Christopher Murray and published in 2021 by Berkley Books, is a fictionalized biography of Belle da Costa Greene's life as the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. The Personal Librarian received starred reviews from Booklist [12] and Library ...
Though she languished in obscurity for decades, there are now two books—Belle Greene, by Alexandra Lapierre, and The Personal Librarian, published just one year apart—devoted to memorializing ...
"That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America," (Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $29.99) by Amanda Jones ... Review: Nicola Yoon's novel, 'One of Our Kind,' brings light to race, class in Los ...
Kaite Mediatore Stover, the library’s director of readers’ services, will lead a discussion of Amanda Jones’ “That Librarian” at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, with the author briefly attending ...
A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit. [1]A book review may be a primary source, an opinion piece, a summary review, or a scholarly view. [2]
In a review for Los Angeles Review of Books, Dan Hassler-Forest wrote that the title story of The Memory Librarian is a "play on Philip K. Dick’s thematic obsession with anxieties about the reliability of memories." In addition, Monáe's exploration of race and sexuality as "markers of social deviance" are a method to explore the way in which ...