📚BOOK REVIEW📚 Ｔｈｅ Ｐｅｒｓｏｎａｌ Ｌｉｂｒａｒｉａｎ by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 #historicalfiction 📔I really enjoyed this character-driven, coming-of-age book about a librarian who becomes well known for her ability to enter and then dominate a man’s world. Belle begins as a quiet, cerebral, penniless, young woman who lives with her family, but by the end, she is wealthy, daring, and a bit reckless as she goes after her goals. Belle tests the boundaries of women working alongside men, living on her own, and supporting herself instead of finding a man to marry. As she boldly goes about her life she has the internal struggle of hiding her true identity. This book discusses politics, racism, abortion, heartbreak, and the tenacity one must have to go up against the male and white-dominant world. This was a well-researched book based on a true story during the early 1900s. Belle has left a wonderful legacy behind for others to emulate. “And being a woman, I know that I must do my job twice as well as any man to be thought half as good. …Lucky for me, that won’t be too difficult.” #thepersonallibrarian #tbr #book #bookreview