Melissa Torres
Auteur de Dora's Potty Book (Dora the Explorer)
Œuvres de Melissa Torres
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 71
- Popularité
- #245,552
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 2
This is a tightly written mystery with a satisfying ending that I think would appeal to mystery lovers of all types. As an archivist, though, this book brings some additional joys. Key pieces of the mystery hinge on foundations of archival practice like provenance, donor relations, and processing techniques. We get sentences like: "Working in an academic library had taught her to accept many forms of disappointment, and the ease with which old white men did everything was just one of them." Torres also has a gift for teasing out and describing physical aspects of archives and academic library life that are so spot on and bring a real richness to the text -- for example, the stretching and bending and squinting and squatting involved in searching for something in the stacks; or that familiar feeling of confidently picking up a bankers box of records from a faculty office in one building and then desperately wishing you had brought a cart when you finally get it back to the library. And while Jo's husband may be just a little too supportive and sensitive to ring entirely true, the vulnerability and concern that their relationship shares with the reader help round out and humanize Jo as a character.
I'm hoping that Torres continues with this series, because now that I've jumped into the archives mystery genre, I don't ever want to leave!… (plus d'informations)