Bexley library users – a wise and erudite bunch, as you’d expect – recently voted for their `Best Book of the Year`…(Louise, a Sidcup reader says “a massive thank-you, Bexley Libraries, I`ve just finished your prize-winner, it’s the best book I've ever read!”)
They chose a novel by Geraldine Brooks called `The People of the Book`. It’s a wonderful, sweeping, life-enhancing story and its central character is … wait for it…a book!
A rare medieval manuscript, passed down the generations, hidden, repaired, stolen, coveted. What a story it tells, and it leads the Blogbrary to think…If a Bexley library book today could tell a story of its life, what would it say? Or, even more illuminating, what would it report back about the people it’s been borrowed by and living with? If only books could talk!…
(Be warned, dear readers of a delicate disposition, Library staff do find some very odd things which have been used – we presume – as bookmarks, but that’s another story…)
Meanwhile, if you want to try our `Best Book of the Year` do read `The People of the Book`…It’ll remind you that books have lives, just like the people who read them! (Its hero is a Librarian, by the way, but that’s possibly an idea for a future Blog?…)
Give it a go, and if you do enjoy it, please let us know – post your comments below. (Just remember, though, please be very careful what you tell us you use as a bookmark…)
TTFN
