Library Love

Are you in love...with your library? We most certainly hope so! February is Library Lover's Month, a great time to show your library some love. 

From time to time, I enjoy reading fictional books about libraries and librarians. I suppose what I do is similar to nurses watching medical dramas to see how accurately their profession is depicted by others not in the medical field. It's interesting to see how some writers imagine what happens in a place where I spend a great deal of time.

Here are several books I've read and liked that focus on different libraries: 

• What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Hoopla, Libby)  I really enjoyed this one. Although the story is fictional, it shows the real power of a librarian and a friendly staff member at a Tokyo library. They can make patrons feel welcomed and valued; sometimes, they can even find the right books to help people change their lives.
• The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles (BT F SKE, Libby)  This book is loosely based on the true story of what was happening at the American Library in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.
• The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis (Libby)  If you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a library, this one is for you. It focuses on the wife of a superintendent living in an apartment in the main branch of the New York Public Library in 1913 and her granddaughter, a curator at the same library in 1993.
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (BT F HAI, Libby)  How would you like to go to a library in which every book is about you and the different paths you could have taken in life? See what happens to one woman who goes to such a library. Would she have done anything differently in her life knowing the various possible outcomes?
• The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson (Libby)  London during the Blitz has many stories, but this is one of a makeshift library deep in the Bethnal Green station of the Underground and its staff raising the spirits of people through books.

Do you have a book you like that takes place in a library? Share with us!

Wishing you lots of lovely library experiences from the perch.