Recommended by: Read-Warbler
This book is about an American librarian who brings books to rural African places using camels.
I’ll give you that again: She uses CAMELS to bring people BOOKS.
There are no words that adequately express how sad I am that I wasn’t able to finish this book. It contains BOOKS and CAMELS. Bringing books to people via camels. I love books (obviously), and God knows I love camels more than my luggage. One time I went to a RenFest, and THEY HAD CAMELS there and I RODE ON ONE. Didn’t even remotely know that I cared about camels until I got there and saw the sign for camels and instead of being like “Medieval Europe wasn’t exactly camelpalooza” in a snide voice, I seized my sister’s arm and plowed in the direction of the camels going CAMELS CAMELS CAMELS CAMELS.
But camels didn’t feature very much in the bits of the book I did get through, and anyway I couldn’t get through it. There was much bashing the reader over the head with unsubtle things that the characters are thinking, like, Why does the American lady want to bring us books so much? Doesn’t she know that here in Africa we are educated in other ways? Books and reading are not the only ways of knowing things.
Practically in those words. It gave me a headache. I had to take two tylenol and an aspirin.