Reading Allowed

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Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

An absolutely delightful, charming book with stories, anecdotes and observations about life in a library. The author writes with description and wit, and I found myself wanting to sneak read while working, to see what other happenings transpire. #libraryreads

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Eggs

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ a visit from the inimitable and magnanimous @Soubhiville this fine morning ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ all these books (many are for #authoramonth2021!) plus a beautiful bookmark 🔖 to start a new reading year!! Thank you ever so much Soubhi for this generous prize 🤗 for #authoramonth2020

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Deblovestoread That‘s a great looking stack of books! Congrats!🎉 4y

Eggs @Kdgordon88 IKR?!! Thanks 🙏🏻 4y

TrishB Lovely 💜 4y

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AmyG Great books! 🙌🏻❤️ 4y

Crazeedi That is an awesome prize, and you deserve it!! @Soubhiville you are very kind, and Sher enjoy reading!! Congrats!!🎉🎉 4y

Eggs @TrishB @AmyG @Crazeedi Thank you 🙏🏻😘🥰📚 4y

Soubhiville I hope you‘ll enjoy them all! ❤️ 4y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!!!! 4y

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Tove_Reads

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Cathythoughts 👍🏻💕💕💕 5y

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squirrelbrain

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

bailed

I hardly ever bail on books but fortunately this was a library book so I did...

I imagined it to be mildly amusing but it turned out to be a litany of snide tales about the more unfortunate members of society who used the library.

Example: A woman apparently faints but on reviewing the CCTV they see that she has deliberately laid herself down on the floor. ‘Ms Munchausen presumably got what she came in for‘

At that point I bailed....

TrishB 😔 6y

Cathythoughts What !!! 😡 6y

squirrelbrain @TrishB @cathythoughts - that was after the homeless man who smelled, the ‘effete‘ man who had a shiny suit, a 20 year old man (with his carer) who has the demeanour of a ‘hyperactive 3 year old‘ and the Down‘s syndrome man.... fortunately he didn‘t have anything bad to say about him but still, why make him part of a book? 😡 6y

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TrishB That all sounds so sad 😔 why is any of that funny. There are probably a million funny stories without actually having to make fun of peoples lives. 6y

Caroline2 Ah that all sounds really mean. 😔 6y

Megabooks Terrible! What a mean person! 6y

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Eggs

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

Happy Friday

tammysue Lovely 😊 6y

JoScho 💙💙💙 6y

Eggs @whatshesreadingnow @JoScho ♥️💙♥️💙 6y

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Jeg

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

pick

Delightful. Loved all the stories. Amusing, surprising and uplifting. The author worked for sometime in the British library system. @MrsMalaprop

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4ravens

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

Saw this graphic shared on Facebook, wondering what the Australian statistics are.

LeeRHarry Possibly pretty similar - which is pretty sad .... 7y

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Readaholic35

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bailed

I know some people insist on finishing every book they start whether they like it or not. I'm not one of those people. I had high hopes for this one as I thought it looked like the perfect read for me. It wasn't. The stories he told about the library were dry, disjointed and at times the descriptions of customers seemed a bit mean. I tried to keep going but it just didn't hold my interest so I gave up!

Readaholic35

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

A change of pace from the fantastical book I finished earlier but I love books about books and often daydream about working in a library or bookshop so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into this.

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Kirsty1

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

Gorgeous day on the east coast (uk) today, loving this book and finding myself nodding in agreement to every other sentence! #tootrue

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Yeah_I_Read

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

Hit 1k on Instagram... must be my lucky week 🤗🤗🤗
With all these new book people here and on #bookstagram, I am in my glory 😊
Both are such awesome communities of readers and I'm so glad to be connected with everyone 😊
The only drawback being that I've bought a s***ton of books in the last few weeks 😬😬😬

Laura317 Congratulations!! 🎈🎉Yeah, those #blamelitsy purchases can add up! 7y

Yeah_I_Read @Laura317 I never knew about thrift books before 😫😫😫 now my husband keeps asking me, if it's cheap why are you spending so much lol 7y

minkyb Thriftbooks is a menace lol! 7y

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Literaryunicorn Congrats! This is an amazing community for sure! 👏👏👏 7y

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Redwritinghood 👏👏👏👏And on the book buying, same here. I went on a buying binge after joining Litsy. Now I'm trying to read what I have but it's addictive. #blameitonlitsy 7y

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mjdowens My husband is threatening me with a book ban if I don't slow down on my book buying. I said so you want me to just breathing too? 😂😂 7y

DogMomIrene Your post made me snort! 🤣I've had the same problem with buying books which I rationalize because I am reading more regularly than last year. 7y

Yeah_I_Read @mjdowens 😫😫😫 exactly! 7y

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scripturient

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

bailed

Um, sorry Mr Paling but you totally destroyed a book that could have been perfect and I'm a bit mad at you now. I was hoping for something along the lines of the 'Weird things customers say in bookshops' and 'I work at a public library' books but all I got was a rambling monologue that jumped from one unfunny/banal 'anecdote' to something that was completely unrelated. I couldn't deal with this lack of structure and was bored to death. Bail! :(

LeahBergen Really?! Oh, no! I thought this sounded like it would be good. 8y

minkyb Oh so sad but it is a good cover to photograph. 8y

SaturnDoo Rats🐀🐀🐀 I was hoping it would be good. Thanks for letting us know. Will be removing this from the tbr mountain. 😀 8y

elkeOriginal I tried the ebook sample and worried this might be the case. Thanks for taking a hit for the team and alerting us! Our TBRs thank you 👍 8y

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scripturient

Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | Chris Paling

Starting on this pretty little thing tonight. :)

britt_brooke Nice photo! 📷👌🏻 8y

BookHermit Due to gross mismanagement of natural resource revenue, our provincial government just cut library funding to shreds, effectively destroying our interlibrary loan system and forcing many libraries to lay off up to 2/3 of their staff. Our elected officials have no concept of how libraries serve local communities. I wonder if this book might enlighten them and melt their frozen hearts. 8y

Suet624 @BookHermit I am so sorry. 8y

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RealBooks4ever @BookHermit Stupid government! 😢They know not what they do. 8y

minkyb @BookHermit so so awful 8y

scripturient @BookHermit Oh no, I am so sorry. That sucks. I wonder when governments will realise that investing into education should be one of their top priorities - libraries, schools, universities: they should all be supported. Personally I think every politician should be forced to join a library and visit it regularly to see what they do for communities. 8y

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TheLondonBookworm

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Stories about libraries? Um yes please!!! 😻😻😻😻😻

LeahBergen Ooo! Want! 8y

MrBook Need! 8y

MrBook Of course I would need it after @LeahBergen wants it. 8y

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