02-26-2018, 10:09 PM | #1 |
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What Treasures have you found in a little free library?
I found this article in a newspaper and googled it for an online copy.
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02-27-2018, 02:10 AM | #2 |
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I found a 1930 MacMillan edition of Far from the Madding Crowd just the other day. Not in a streetside library as such, in a cardboard box of books someone had put on their front wall. From the tenor of the notes in the margins (in pencil, so sometimes hard to read) the reader was a student - probably of English Lit at Sydney U.
One of the advantages of not owning a car and walking as much as possible is that one finds treasures such as this. On one occasion I found an excellent set of screwdrivers in a rubbish skip. Madding Crowd is one of my favourite stories. When I got off the bus after seeing the 2015 movie, there was a man with two border collie dogs sitting on a nearby seat, it was uncanny, I had to pat the dogs to make sure they weren't an illusion. Maybe one day I'll find Bathsheba Everdene hiding in a cardboard box on someone's wall BR |
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I've never seen one of those "little libraries" anywhere but online in pictures.
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There are several near where my fiancee lives (near the clinic) and one over near Juda in the entrance of a restaurant there. At least it was there last time I was over that way. Those are about the only ones I've seen either. Not a lot of communities seem to have them which is a shame I think.
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Slightly OT - I think I'm seeing more young adults (16-25) reading paper books than I was a couple of years ago, I've even seen some in cafes reading 'serious' newspapers. Maybe the fiddle fone fad is becoming uncool. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-02-2018 at 06:30 PM. |
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