Tell Their Stories

Tell Their Stories

Shelf Life 🍣: Spotlight on guestbooks, borrowed books and shared texts

Plus: a review of Josh Riedel's debut novel: PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE

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Hannah Ray
Oct 05, 2022
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I love libraries. The reasons are obvious and numerous: Free books! As many as you can carry! And more recently: no late fees!

But the particular aspect of book borrowing I love the most, the part which possibly makes other people shudder: you get to share books with strangers. And I don’t just mean in the sense they have also read and consumed the same …

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