Teatime Librarian

I am a tea-loving, hat-knitting, world-traveling teen librarian.
Thu Jun 4

I am not a mind reader

  • On three separate occasions, patrons came to the desk tonight and said only the following:
  • Can you fix this? (With no corresponding body language or item)
  • It happened again (he confused me with another librarian who had helped him before)
  • Pass (and thrusts ID at me, presumably to request a visitors pass for the computer)
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Mon May 25
Me and David at Top of the Town in Arlington, VA.  What a nice place for a wedding reception!
Me and David at Top of the Town in Arlington, VA.  What a nice place for a wedding reception!
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“ I like my tea like I like my women— loose. My incredibly inappropriate husband.
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Sun May 10
Mary Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.

Mary Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle shells

and pretty maids all in a row.

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Mon Apr 20

The Road

The Road The Road by Cormac McCarthy

My review

 rating: 5 of 5 stars
McCarthy’s style is understated and beautiful— so much emotion hovers just below the surface of his simple prose. Though it sounds like a cliche, his novel evokes questions about what it means to be human and what it means to love another person. It is not a “happy” book, but it is a very enjoyable one.

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Sat Apr 18

The librarian is not flirting with you; it's her job to be nice

  • Patron walks in to the empty children's room. He's middle-aged and I have helped him before.
  • Me: Hello, how are you? (In a tone intended to politely hint that he should not be in the children's room as he is a middle-aged man without a child)
  • Patron: I'm fine, how are you?
  • Me: I'm good, thanks.
  • Patron: I didn't ask how you look, I asked how you are. *walks closer to the desk*
  • Me: I'm fine, thank you. (trying to pretend he so did not just say that)
  • Patron: I said, I didn't ask how you look, I asked how you are.
  • Me: *nervous laughter*
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“ Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone. Judith Krug, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/opinion/15wed4.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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Thu Apr 16

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

My review

 rating: 5 of 5 stars
It is a great story with really captivating characters— I thoroughly enjoyed it. At first the footnotes turned me off, but I grew to love them. It was challenging to read a book with so much Spanglish, but I stopped worrying about trying to understand every word perfectly, and was kind of like listening in on conversations at work in the New Brunswick Free Public Library, which should be a testament to the authenticity of the style given that a good portion of the book takes place in New Brunswick.

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Tue Apr 7

Review: In the Woods by Tana French

In the Woods In the Woods by Tana French

My review

 rating: 3 of 5 stars
I enjoyed the police procedural aspect of the book and the extra twist that Rob is a victim as well as a officer. I was mad at the way he treated his partner after certain events unfolded and that made him less sympathetic, but more realistic. Overall it was enjoyable and sort of akin to a good episode of Law and Order SVU.

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Our friendly backyard groundhog.  So cute!  I think his/her name should be Gumdrop.
Our friendly backyard groundhog.  So cute!  I think his/her name should be Gumdrop.
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