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Discussion Post #86

Feb 16, 2013 10:23

Happy Saturday, people! As a reminder, we're doing our discussion of Tomorrow, When the War Began next Saturday. I know that it's early, but blame the calendar.

If you'd like a discussion topic, let's talk about how awesome libraries are and what they've meant to you as a reader. (And yes, this is inspired to the anti-library thing that hondagirll posted on ( Read more... )

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katayla February 16 2013, 16:02:34 UTC

Oh crap. I really should learn how to . . . use a calendar? Haha. (No, I'm excited to read it! I guess I just need to juggle my reading plans some ( ... )

beth_shulman February 16 2013, 23:45:01 UTC

SOMEONE ACTUALLY LITERALLY SAID TO ME, "I hate libraries. They're so... free." In tones of deepest disgust. I DON'T GET IT.

katayla February 16 2013, 23:50:13 UTC

UM.

Is that, like, some kind elitist attitude? Like ewwwwww, free stuff???

beth_shulman February 16 2013, 23:54:41 UTC

I guess so??

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brasaremean February 16 2013, 16:21:54 UTC

Lilbraries in Bosnia aren't really that good. Only the most popular books of contemporary literature, and very little in English. I have a huge library just three minutes away from my place, and I do visit it often.

Soooo, yesterday I read this really disturbing book, Abduction. It completely messed with my head.

Highlight of the week is A Happy Accident. It's such a sweet story. Made me ugly cry and all.

empressearwig February 16 2013, 16:25:06 UTC

I've been a volunteer at my public library for almost a year now. And part of that is going in on Saturday mornings to pull the AV reserves for people (so books on CD/DVDs/CDs). And when I get there, there is ALWAYS a line of people waiting to get into the library. At nine o'clock on a Saturday morning. Nine o'clock on a Saturday morning!!!!!! It always makes my morning, because let's be real, I don't want to get up at 6:30 so that I can catch a bus downtown to do this, but when I see all of these people there, waiting to get in, it sort of makes me think that what I'm there doing actually matters to people.

So that's why libraries are awesome. That and I cannot picture my childhood of riding my bike to the library multiple times a day without them. So that dude can go fuck himself.

spyglass_ February 16 2013, 17:53:21 UTC

Libraries are the best! I would never be able to read as much as I do without them. I don't have the money (or the space if I'm buying physical books) to buy every single book I read. If not for my libraries, I wouldn't be buying more books, I would probably be buying FEWER books. There are plenty of books I've only bought after I've read the library book and loved it. I would never have known if I hadn't had the opportunity to check it out from the library first ( ... )

beth_shulman February 17 2013, 00:18:15 UTC

EXACTLY. Seconding everything. I know someone on Goodreads who lives in Malaysia where there are no libraries and she is forced to buy everything. I would be reading so much less!

And there haven't been new Gallagher books for a while and I want another one ASAP.

sugarpromises February 16 2013, 23:23:57 UTC

Much of my childhood was spent in libraries. My parents regularly brought us there and encouraged us to spend time there. We were like kids in a candy store because we could take out anything we wanted... As much as we wanted!!! Our largest number of borrowed books was probably well in the teens or twentys. We were insane.

When I got older, libraries were places I went to when I needed to wait or kill time. There was one across from my dads work and I would spend afternoons there reading and reading and reading. And then when I got older and started practicing the art of research, libraries were my go to place before the world of Internet allowed access to articles and papers.

There is something so lovely about a building designed and meant to be there just to house books, all types of books.