Buttoned-up book lover Dorothy ODJO Jarrod is a devotedly unsexy librarian in a small Kansas town. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees, and avoid her flamboyant landlady's attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last partNbecause it turns out Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! Original.
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Buttoned-up book lover Dorothy ODJO Jarrod is a devotedly unsexy librarian in a small Kansas town. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees, and avoid her flamboyant landlady's attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last partNbecause it turns out Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! Original.
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Generally, I prefer historical novels over contemporary. However, I thought a book about librarians would be fun. Most of my friends are librarians; I'm disappointed to see that they generally panned the book. I enjoyed it from page 1.
DJ (Dorothy Jarrow) has a new job as the head of a small library in rural Kansas. Amazingly this library was one of the many donated by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. She is very excited and she plans to call this part of Kansas home. Just when things are starting to look good, a former mistake shows up (in the person of Scott Sanderson).
Scott just happens to be the son of the head of the Library Board, Viv Sanderson. Along with DJ's small salary is free rent at the home of Viv. Things get complicated quickly; Scott is attracted to her while DJ is looking for the exits.
He doesn't remember DJ specifically but their tryst (long ago) is always on his mind. Unfortunately for DJ, she remembers Scott clearly. There are lots of subplots in this book; both the main and secondary characters are well-defined and act in ways one would expect them to act. The town is really a character in this novel and most of the folks therein are quirky and very gossipy.
Morsi captures small town life; the use (and explanation) of the annual wheat harvest is a bonus. A clever feature of the book is the use of the Dewey Decimal System as chapter headings.
The one thing I did not like was the end; it ended rather abruptly. It felt as though everyone was traveling in a car at a fast speed, the car stopped in the middle of the road, everyone exited ? and that's all folks!
