Posts tagged 809 Literary Criticism
Everything, Ruining
A disgruntled woman approached the desk.
“I cannot BELIEVE the nerve of some people, dog-earing the pages of the Bestsellers! Do they think they OWN the books? I think you should give a bookmark to every single person who checks out a book. I mean it. THEY ARE RUINING EVERYTHING. I will help make the bookmarks if that’s what it takes.”
Who?
Patron: “Yes, can you please show me where I can find poetry by Emily Dickens?”
Newspapers, Good ones
Patron: “You all have the newspaper?”
Librarian: “Yes, you can take this one right here… just fill out this slip.”
Patron: “Okay, but do you have other days’?”
Librarian: “Oh sure, just write down whatever date you need and we’ll get it.”
Patron: “Okay, well, do you know of a good one?”
Librarian: “A good one? Sure, yesterday’s was good.”
Patron: “Okay, I’ll take yesterday’s.”
Book, Square
Teen: “I want a book by Ethan Hopkins. I don’t remember the title. It was a square book.”
Book review, by a 15-year-old patron: “A book that is somewhat both creepy and existing.”
Murder, Liking it
I always ask my book group to rate the book on a scale of 1 to 5. Tonight was the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
One teen girl: “I’d only give it a 4 cos I don’t really like murder and dismemberment.”
Another teen girl: “I’d give it a 5 cos I actually DO like murder and dismemberment.”
45-year-old woman to friend: “The Secret is the only book you’ll ever need. I mean that.”
In a pile of books for a Banned Books Week display.
Books, Questionable
Book titles people have asked for:
How to Kill a Mockingbird
The Girl with the Lizard Tattoo
The Attic of Anne Frank
Catch 22 in the Rye
Lord of the Flies by Tolkien
The Jungle Book by Sinclair
The Second Sight of Bree Tanner
The Hungry Games
Amazing Race by Shull
The Secret Life of Sparrows by Harper
The Lively Bones
