I've been working on this for about three weeks. It's not that complicated, certainly not difficult reading, but it's the sort of thing that you can't really read in long stints. There was a lot of interesting stuff in the book in short paragraphs. That's the good news. The bad news is that I found at least a couple of either completely wrong or vaguely not-quite-right pieces of information (e.g., Jesus grew up in Nazareth, not Bethlehem, according to the gospels; this was basically a typo, but one that should have been caught). Once you've had that experience, it tends to color the way you look at the rest of the details. So I can't honestly recommend the book in terms of research, but for a trivia nut, it would be interesting.
I really love this kind of thing. It's obvious that I pretty much had no choice in the little matter of becoming a librarian!
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