What I love about my local library
- The variety of books available including new releases, audiobooks, ebooks and older books and classics.
- A cosy place to come to for reading, studying, browsing or to use resources such as the computers.
- Events such as Author Talks.
- Mostly lovely staff who are happy to help you.
My great reads from the library:
- Arabella by Georgette Heyer (A humorous romance set in London high society during the Regency).
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
- Square haunting: five women freedom and London between the wars by Francesca Wade.
- Princess Mary the first modern princess by Elisabeth Basford. (About the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Aunt) .
- The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth (ebook through IndyReads, a novel around Jane Austen’s time, about landlords in Regency Ireland leaving their estates to be elsewhere).
- How not to have an arranged marriage by Amir Khan.
A Librarian I Admire
Nancy Pearl is an American Librarian who wrote the BookLust guidebooks – a series of reader advisory (code for help to find the books you enjoy most) guides organised by different topics. She worked at The Seattle Public Library and promoted a programme of a special type of Reader Advisory; Of taking the a book you enjoy and asking why you enjoyed it and finding similar books with that reasoning. I like that idea, of taking the readers likes and dislikes into consideration in a new and thoughtful way rather than simply by genre. For example, she categorises by story, character, setting, and language and goes from there. Here are several examples in book lists from The Seattle Public Library: https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/user_profile/72886252
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