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2008  The Ludington Librarian Posted by Jim Macdonald at 07:26
PM * 45 comments  On 23 June, 2008, a review was posted at
Amazon by someone called “Speakthe truth.” It was Speakthe
truth’s first and so-far only review at Amazon.  The five star
review, labeling the book “insightful,” says:  A must read! New
ways of thinking and looking at the world. You will not believe
the funny, crazy & demented people at the library.  The book
being reviewed was The Library Diaries by Ann Miketa. The
Library Diaries had come out on 9 June, 2008, from
PublishAmerica. The reader may be forgiven for suspecting that
the review was written by the author herself. Few others would
have known that it existed.  So far it’s an old story: Vanity
press author fights hopeless odds to drum up publicity. Then
things got interesting. Two days after that review appeared, on
25 July 2008, a librarian in the town of