![]() Hilarious, compassionate, and wise, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is the consummate book-lover's book. Through the lens of the books in her life, Annie comments on everything from feminism to health to poverty to childhood aspirations. Annie Spence has spent the last decade as a librarian at public libraries in the Midwest She lives in Detroit with her husband and son Dear Fahrenheit 451. Her notes to The Goldfinch and The Time Traveler's Wife feel like classics. We read her love letters to Just Kids and Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury, as well as her break-ups with The Giving Tree and Dear John. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties - everywhere. They remove the ones that patrons no longer check out, and they put back the ones they treasure. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. A Gen-X librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life. ![]()
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