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hanz's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Think I'd class this more as history or even social issues as opposed to true crime. The book jumps around a lot between the fire and its investigation, the history of the LA library and the current people and services of that library.
The history parts were my favourite and there were a lot of interesting facts about the people involved in the early stages of the library.
Occasionally hard to follow because it jumped around a lot and I found that some of the chapters ended quite abruptly and didn't really have a conclusion to add to the overall point of the book, however I'm relatively new to non fiction so could just be me.
The author also repeated used either he or she to refer to an arbitrary person, which was a little jarring and felt out of place with some of the themes of the book.
The history parts were my favourite and there were a lot of interesting facts about the people involved in the early stages of the library.
Occasionally hard to follow because it jumped around a lot and I found that some of the chapters ended quite abruptly and didn't really have a conclusion to add to the overall point of the book, however I'm relatively new to non fiction so could just be me.
The author also repeated used either he or she to refer to an arbitrary person, which was a little jarring and felt out of place with some of the themes of the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Antisemitism
Minor: Homophobia and Racism
betsyhokamp's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Child death and Death