Dewey Decimal System of Love
2 journalers for this copy...
Alison Sheffield doesn't fall into any category...
Forget those stereotypes about librarians. With long, auburn hair and perfect skin, Ally looks half her age of forty. And even though she's been celibate for fifteen years, she doesn't live a monastic life. Ally enjoys the finer things, like her zippy convertible, ice-cold martinis, classical music, and her sensuously appointed apartment.
However, like any good librarian, Ally is discreet in public - and hides her extravagant nature behind a french twist and sensible clothes. But after last night, even her most proper attire can't hide the signs - the pink cheeks, the extra-poufy hair, the bounce in her step.
Ally Sheffield is in love.
The heart-palpitating, nausea-inducing, silly, inexplicable, absurd and pointless kind of love found in a romance novel. And for once in her life, what Alison needs to know she can't find in any book - she can only live it...
Forget those stereotypes about librarians. With long, auburn hair and perfect skin, Ally looks half her age of forty. And even though she's been celibate for fifteen years, she doesn't live a monastic life. Ally enjoys the finer things, like her zippy convertible, ice-cold martinis, classical music, and her sensuously appointed apartment.
However, like any good librarian, Ally is discreet in public - and hides her extravagant nature behind a french twist and sensible clothes. But after last night, even her most proper attire can't hide the signs - the pink cheeks, the extra-poufy hair, the bounce in her step.
Ally Sheffield is in love.
The heart-palpitating, nausea-inducing, silly, inexplicable, absurd and pointless kind of love found in a romance novel. And for once in her life, what Alison needs to know she can't find in any book - she can only live it...
I'm still trying to figure out if I liked this book, or not. While I enjoyed the story of a librarian who comes out of her shell, I did find myself rolling my eyes at a lot of the unexpected (and unneccessary, IMHO) sextalk that cropped up in the first half of the book. About halfway through, though, it switches to more of a mystery, involving the librarian, a homeless guy, a symphony conductor, and his wife. The ending was incredibly abrupt, almost as if the author had reached her deadline, and needed to wrap things up in a hurry.
If it weren't for the fact that I found the character of the librarian amusing, I probably wouldn't have finished this book. As it was, I was reading this while sitting on an airplane next to my husband, and I kept worrying that he would look over and laugh at what I was reading! *grin*
If it weren't for the fact that I found the character of the librarian amusing, I probably wouldn't have finished this book. As it was, I was reading this while sitting on an airplane next to my husband, and I kept worrying that he would look over and laugh at what I was reading! *grin*
Journal Entry 3 by lyssrose at WishList in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Friday, September 9, 2005
As a librarian, it was a little disturbing and I thought the ending was way too abrupt. Another librarian friend read it too, and I'm going to drop it on the desk of a co-worker!!