Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library | 
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
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 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
bailedI 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....
pickDelightful. Loved all the stories. Amusing, surprising and uplifting. The author worked for sometime in the British library system. @MrsMalaprop
Saw this graphic shared on Facebook, wondering what the Australian statistics are.
bailedI 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!
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.
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 😬😬😬
bailedUm, 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! :(
Starting on this pretty little thing tonight. :)
Stories about libraries? Um yes please!!! 😻😻😻😻😻
