If your small town’s library closed for renovation, would you spend your own money to open a lending library in your sunroom for the book-hungry? That’s the premise of this novel by Aliza Fogelson. Dodie, who is an art teacher as well as an avid reader, decides she can do this both for her students and for the adults of the town. The other threads of the novel include her love life, her desire to be a mother and thoughts of adopting as a single parent, and her issues with her father, who abandoned his wife and three young daughters. She also struggles with her feelings of failure after an art show of her work was panned. It’s a promising first novel and a nice light read.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
Here's some library-themed music to get you in the mood.
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