![]() You borrowed it, you read it, you brought it back and chose something else, and someone else read whatever you read after and before you. ![]() In one interview, the daughter of author Kate Atkinson, Helen Clyne, says that, for her, going to the public library “was a habit, a ritual. I remember a couple of videos they checked out every week for a while–one about reptiles and one about baby animals-but do they remember? Will my children tell the kind of stories many of us older people tell about our experiences in a public library? Will yours?īritish author Ali Smith intersperses the stories in her collection with interviews and anecdotes from readers, writers, and librarians. I don’t know if my children will have public library stories. I remember reading a lot of family sagas, Look Homeward, Angel, War and Peace, and most of Dickens. One of them is that I read all of the fattest books at the public library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, because for a while I was limited to ten books each week and I needed the most reading time possible within that limitation. ![]() I enjoyed both these books, as I have plenty of public library stories. So many people have stories about public libraries that they want to tell that Susan Orlean and Ali Smith have collected them, Orlean in The Library Book and Smith in Public Library and other stories. ![]()
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