Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore Review

Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore edited by Paula Guran- Read April 24-26

Rating: 📚📚📚

Having worked in a library myself and also having a great interest in libraries, I wanted to give this book a shot. I am pleased to say that I did enjoy most of these stories and some of them I loved. This was an interesting collection of short stories about the topics mentioned above. I really enjoyed two of the stories a lot:  "In the House of Seven Librarians" by Ellen Klages, and  "Paper Cuts Scissors" by Holly Black. Holly Black is one of my favorite writers and her story was interesting to me. I have always loved the idea of being able to go into stories. It is reminiscent of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke in this aspect and I really enjoyed it for that. Ellen Klages story is about a little girl who is raised by seven librarians and the different ways they decide to raise her. It is a great story that I could not get enough of.

I am not a person that reads many short stories. In college, I read many of them in all of my Literature classes and I quite enjoyed them but in my free time I never really picked them up too much. As soon as I saw this book I wanted to pick it up because I thought stories about Librarians, Libraries and the Lore surrounding each would be something I would enjoy. I would recommend this collection of short stories because to those that enjoy libraries for any number of reasons. It is a good collection and I'm sure that you will find at least one story that you will enjoy within its contents. I'm glad that I took the time to read it and I know that some of them I will read over again. In the future, I plan on picking up some of Paula Guran's other collections up.

I was given a copy of this collection for free for an honest review.