I suppose World/International Day of X is useful peg for journos...

[oursin]

Today is World Book Day. Or at least, it is in the UK - bizarrely, we don't celebrate this Unesco day on April 23 like the rest of the world. [Maybe because we have our own April 23 things to celebrate, like St George and one W Shagsberd?] Naomi Alderman says hug a librarian go to the library today. However, I'm v dubious about her claim that '

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[carandol]

We're also in the middle of Read an E-Book Week, you might like to know. And last week was National Rabbit Week -- that was to encourage the care of rabbits, not the eating of them, in case you're wondering.

And it's well known that librarians only become sexy when they take their glasses off and shake out their hair -- which a diligent librarian would never dream of doing while on duty.

[oursin]

Not the seething possibility, when she sits with fierce glasses and hair in bun under 'Quiet' sign?

[clanwilliam]

Only if she's got a whip under her desk.

And, as I recall, librarians are forbidden to do so by law ever since the unfortunate incident involving a librarian, Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx in the BM Reading Room.

[oursin]

No, no, not Thomas Carlyle! Anything but that!
*Goes looking for bleach for mind*

[clanwilliam]

Hah!

I haz ur trigger!