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A
Hello,
everybody,
my
name
is
zoe
and
I
work
at
the
reading
agency.
A
national
charity.
That's
mission
is
to
tackle
life's
big
challenges
through
the
proven
power
of
reading.
We
deliver
our
programmes
in
partnership
with
public
libraries,
schools,
prisons
and
many
others,
and
in
the
past
year
we
have
reached
over
1.8
million
people
nationwide.
A
Janet's
latest
book
is
based
on
the
true
story
of
the
heroic
librarians
at
the
american
library
in
paris
who
fought
to
keep
the
library
open
during
the
nazi
occupation,
moving
between
1940s,
paris
and
1980s
montana.
The
story
focuses
on
librarian
ordeal
and
the
people
she
meets.
While
working
at
the
library
we
also
meet
12
year
old,
lily,
the
much
older
adil's
next
door,
neighbor
with
whom
she
strikes
up
an
unexpected
friendship.
A
It's
an
unforgettable
novel
of
romance
friendship,
family
and
the
heroism
found
in
the
quietest
of
places,
and
I'm
delighted
to
be
speaking
with
janet
today.
All
about
the
book,
so
hi,
janet
hello,
zoe.
It's
lovely
to
be
here,
thank
you
for
having
me
no
for
my
pleasure.
So
would
you
mind
starting
us
off
with
a
short
reading
from
the
paris
library.
B
They
represented
freedom,
the
future,
along
with
numbers.
I
had
studied
the
history
of
libraries
going
back
to
the
1500s
in
england,
while
henry
viii
was
busy
chopping
off
his
wise
heads,
our
king
francois
was
modernizing
his
library,
which
he
opened
to
scholars.
His
royal
collection
was
the
beginning
of
the
media
tech.
B
I
held
fast
to
these
factors
and
figures,
hoping
they'd
make
me
appear
qualified
to
the
directors
I
strode
from
my
family's
apartment
on
the
suriran
across
from
the
san
nazar
train
station,
where
locomotives
coughed
up
smoke,
the
wind
whipped
my
hair
and
I
tucked
tendrils
under
my
tan
hat
in
the
distance.
I
could
see
the
dome
of
santa
cruz
now
church,
religion,
200,
old
testament,
221.
B
testament,
I've
waited,
but
the
number
wouldn't
come.
I
was
so
nervous
that
I
forgot
single
facts.
I
drew
my
notebook
from
my
purse.
I
yes
225.
I
knew
that
my
favorite
part
of
library
school
had
been
the
dewey
decimal
system
conceived
in
1873
by
the
american
librarian
melville
dewey.
It
used
10
classes
to
organize
library
books
on
books
on
shelves
based
on
subject.
There
was
a
number
for
everything
allowing
any
reader
to
find
any
book
in
any
library.
B
B
I
arrived
on
the
con
boulevard
where,
in
the
space
of
a
block,
this
city
shrubbed
off
her
working-class
mantle
and
donned,
a
new
coat,
the
coarse
smell
of
coal
dissipated,
replaced
by
the
honey
jasmine
of
joy,
worn
by
women
delighting
in
the
window,
display
of
nina
ritchie's
dresses
and
kiss
long-forming
leather
gloves
further
along.
I
wound
around
musicians
exiting
the
shop
that
sold
wrinkled
sheet
music
past
the
baroque
building
with
the
blue
door
and
turned
the
corner
onto
a
narrow
side
street.
I
knew
the
way
by
heart.
B
I
loved
paris,
a
city
with
secrets
like
book
covers
some
leather,
some
cloth,
each
parisian
door
led
to
an
unexpected
world.
A
courtyard
could
contain
a
knot
of
bicycles
or
a
plump
concierge
armed
with
a
broom.
In
the
case
of
the
library,
a
massive
wooden
door
opened
to
a
secret
garden,
bordered
by
petunias
on
one
side,
long
on
the
other,
the
white
pebbled
path
led
to
a
brick
and
stone
mansion.
B
A
Thank
you.
That
was
a
lovely
introduction
and
I
especially
like
the
description
of
paris
as
a
city
with
secrets.
I
think
that's
really
lovely,
so
you
worked
yourself
at
the
american
library
in
paris
as
programs
manager.
Could
you
just
tell
me
a
bit
about
what
it
was
like
working
there
and
what
place
does
the
library
hold
in
paris's
kind
of
wider
cultural
landscape?
A
B
I
really
enjoyed
the
job.
My
role
was
to
invite
authors
and
journalists
to
speak
every
week
and
to
hold
to
take
part
in
the
evenings
with
an
author
series.
So
it
was
a
lot
of
fun
to
reach
out
to
different
authors
that
I
wanted
to
hear
more
about.
I
always
stood
in
the
back
and
was
taking
notes
because
I
just
every
everything
they
said
was
so
interesting
and
I
just
absolutely
loved
hearing
it.
B
The
american
library
has
60
different
nationalities
in
its
membership,
so
it's
very
international
25
of
the
membership
is
french,
so
you
can
see
there
are
a
lot
of
french
people
who
love
the
library
as
well.
I
think,
what's
interesting
is
that
it's
a
the
membership
is
a
cross
section
of
people
that
you
wouldn't
normally
see.
There
are
millionaires
families
on
a
budget,
students,
retirees
very
conservative,
very
liberal,
and
they
all
come
for
the
communion
of
books.
So
it's
a
really
interesting
place.
A
Amazing,
yeah
and
and
your
job
all
in
particular
sounds
fantastic.
I
can't
imagine
being
somewhere
where
you
get
to
meet
so
many
authors.
It
sounds
like
a
kind
of
parisian,
literary
salon
or
something,
and
so
how?
How
commonplace
is
it
to
have
kind
of
a
national
library
in
a
foreign
city
like
having
the
american
library
in
paris-
and
I
think
you
also
mentioned
the
russian
library
in
paris
as
well-
is
that
something
that
you
see
in
kind
of
lots
of
places
around
the
world?
A
B
Haven't
seen
so
many,
I
know
when
I
was
in
kiev.
There
was
a
british
council
library
that
was
absolutely
beautiful,
but
I
know
there's
a
there's,
a
russian
library
here
in
paris.
There's
a
ukrainian
library
there's
a,
I
think,
there's
a
british
council
library
here
as
well.
So
I
think
it
depends
on
the
city
yeah.
A
I
suppose
paris
is
such
a
kind
of
big
metropolitan
city
and
has
such
a
mix
of
of
cultures,
so
it
kind
of
makes
sense
to
have
libraries
to
kind
of
serve
all
these
different
communities
in
the
city.
A
B
The
when
the
nazis
arrived
in
june
1940
on
on
day
three
of
their
arrival,
they
went
into
the
polish
library,
which
is
right
behind
notre
dame
and
they
took
the
archives.
They
took
the
books.
Then
they
went
into
the
russian
library,
which
is
maybe
a
block
away
from
where
shakespeare
and
company
is
today
and
the
same
took
the
took
the
books
took
the
archives.
Then
they
went
to
the
ukrainian
library
and
they
even
took
the
librarian.
B
The
director
of
bibliotheque
nacional
was
arrested.
He
was
relieved
of
his
functions
and
he
was
eventually
sent
to
a
concentration
camp,
and
so
you
can
see
for
libraries
in
paris.
It
was
a
very
serious
situation
at
the
american
library
in
paris,
the
the
the
staff
was
was
very
worried
and
one
of
one
staff
member
was
shot
by
the
gestapo.
B
So
it
was
a
serious
time,
but
at
the
beginning,
in
june
of
1940,
they,
the
library,
had
visits
from
from
german
officers
and
eventually
a
man
named
hermann
fuchs,
who
was
the
library
at
the
nazi
library
protector,
came
and
interviewed
dorothy
reader?
She
didn't
recognize
him
right
away.
She
was
more
concentrated
on
his
nazi
uniform,
but
they'd
actually
met
at
several
international
library
conferences
and
so
because
the
us
wasn't
at
war
with
germany.
B
B
He
also
said
that
jewish
people
were
not
allowed
in
the
library,
and
so
what
happened
was
with
the
countess
of
the
counters,
from
ohio,
clara
de
chandran,
who
was
a
woman
from
ohio
who
married
a
frenchman,
a
french
general.
B
They
decided
that
they
would
hand
deliver
books
to
jewish
readers
and
so
at
the
american
library
in
paris,
which
was
also
very
international,
then
the
head
librarian
was
was
from
russia.
He
became
a
french
citizen,
so
he
was
franco,
russian,
the
countess
to
clara
de
chambran.
She
was
american,
but
she
became
french
as
well,
so
she
was
franco-american
and
they
hand-delivered
books
to
the
readers.
A
Yeah
and
they're
they're
characters
that
we
we
see
in
the
book
as
well-
and
you
mentioned
a
few
of
the
titles
in
particular
that
were
kind
of
considered,
inappropriate
books
or
books
that
were
asked
to
be
removed
from
the
library.
But
what
were
the
kind
of
books?
What
was
kind
of
the
criteria
that
was
used
to
choose
these
books
that
shouldn't
be
kind
of
allowed
to
be
borrowed
by
the
public?
A
B
I
think
anything
that
the
germans
considered
controversial
or
anyone
any
books
by
jewish
authors.
The
the
the
germans
had
a
list
called
the
auto
list
and
it
was
several
hundred
books,
but
they
were
the
titles
in
french
and
and
the
the
auto
list
was
for
french
libraries,
and
so
that
was
a
question
of
do.
The
books
in
english
have
to
be
taken
from
the
shelves
and
I
think
what
they
decided
to
do
was
just
loan,
the
books
to
people
that
they
knew
well
yeah.
A
And
the
people
who
were
doing
that
job
who
were
taking
these
books
to
jewish
subscribers,
who
weren't
able
to
access
them
themselves,
were
kind
of
risk
in
their
own
lives
as
well,
because
if
they
were
kind
of
found
out
to
be
delivering
this
service,
then
they
would
have
kind
of
been
seen
as
part
of
the
as
the
enemy
as
well.
Wouldn't
they
yes.
B
A
Yeah,
no,
it
sounds
like
incomprehensible,
so
the
american
library
in
paris
was
quite
unusual,
as
you
said,
because
it
had
an
open
stack
system,
and
so
that's
one
where
people
can
just
kind
of
browse
the
books
themselves
and
they're
all
kind
of
open
on
the
shelves
for
people
to
see.
Whereas
a
lot
of
libraries
required
you
to
ask
a
member
of
staff
who
often
wasn't
actually
a
librarian
to
go
out
and
find
the
book
for
you.
A
So
I
just
wanted
to
know
what
are
your
early
memories
of
visiting
libraries
and
how
do
you
think
the
freedom
of
being
able
to
browse
books
and
discover
them
independently,
independently
kind
of
influences?
Your
kind
of
reading
well.
B
I'll
I'll
say
that
recently
I
listened
to
a
recording
of
the
of
the
director
of
the
american
library
in
paris
in
the
1950s,
and
so
it
was
a
recording
from
the
1950s
with
a
french
female
journalist
and
the
director
in
former
sprinter
and
the
and
the
journalists
had
come
to
the
library.
She
was
looking
around
the
stacks
and
she
said
how?
How
are
you
not
worried
that
people
will?
B
How
shall
I
say
this
steal
books,
and
so,
even
even
then,
even
after
the
war,
there
was
this
concern
that
people
would
steal
books,
and
so
the
director
ian
frazier
forbes
said
no.
French
people
ever
steal
the
books.
If
someone
steals
the
books,
it's
usually
an
american
who
forgets
about
it
and
when
they
return
to
america
they
they
accidentally
take
the
book
with
them,
but
they'll
either.
B
Send
it
back
without
you
know,
cover
the
costs
it's,
but
there
was
that
misconception
that
people,
if
there
were
stacks,
left
unattended,
people
people
would
steal
books,
and
so
I
thought
that
was
really
interesting.
Even
in
the
50s
that
the
idea
of
an
open
stack
system
could
be
controversial.
B
I
I
just
love
being
able,
as
a
child,
to
discover
books
on
my
own
and
I
think,
there's
really
something
wonderful
about
being
able
to
meander
through
the
stacks.
I
know
I
worked
when
I
worked
at
the
american
library
in
paris
like
a
lot
of
the
support
staff.
We
worked
in
a
separate
office,
and
so,
whenever
we
came
into
the
library,
my
eye
would
always
catch
a
different
book,
a
different
spine,
a
different
color,
and
it
was
always
special
to
have
that
connection
with
books.
A
Yeah,
definitely,
I
think,
there's
definitely
something
about
like
being
physically
surrounded
by
the
books
themselves,
because
in
london,
where
I'm
from
we
have
the
british
library
which,
as
I'm
sure
you
know,
is
a
closed
stacks
library.
So
you
have
to
kind
of
order.
The
books
two
days
in
advance
and
then
they're
all
handled
very
carefully
by
the
staff,
and
I
mean
that's
quite
a
particular
library,
because
I
think
it's
mainly
used
for
kind
of
academic,
research
and
stuff.
A
But
it
is
quite
a
kind
of
intimidating
experience
going
in
there
and
kind
of
you
know
having
to
request
the
books,
but
when
you're
kind
of
surrounded
by
them-
and
you
have
them
there
accessible
just
for
you
to
pick
up
and
feel-
and
you
know
kind
of
flip
to
a
page
and
have
a
little
read
and
then
put
it
back
is
is
a
really
wonderful
experience.
A
I
think
so
just
going
back
to
the
kind
of
story
in
the
book,
so
it
occurred
to
me
that
we
know
a
lot
about
the
women
who,
during
the
war,
took
on
jobs
that
were
kind
of
formally
done
by
men.
So
things
like
manual,
labor
and
farm
work,
and
things
like
that,
but
I
don't
think
we
know
so
much
about
the
women
who
already
had
jobs
and
then
continued
to
do
them
throughout
the
world
war.
A
So
how
common
was
it
because
adeline
in
the
book
when
she
first
gets
her
job
at
the
american
library
in
paris,
has
to
kind
of
convince
her
dad
that
it's
what
she
should
be
doing
and
that
you
know
she
should
have
a
job,
even
though
he
can
provide
for
her
financially?
A
B
Me
just
looking
at
the
american
library
in
paris
there
were
so
many
women
who
were
working
at
the
library,
the
directors
dorothy
reader.
I
couldn't
write
too
much
about
them,
but
there
was
a
mother-daughter
team
from
canada,
which
can
you
imagine
going
to
work
with
your
mom
every
day.
I
just
thought
it
would
just
be
so
wonderful,
and
so
you
know
they
were
far
from
home.
B
Just
like
dorothy
reader
phyllis
webb
was
the
with
those
wed
was
the
bookkeeper
from
england,
and
so
she
she
also
was
here
in
paris
on
her
own.
So
helen
fikweiler
from
new
england
in
the
states
arrived
in
paris
three
weeks
before
the
war
broke
out.
So
I
can't
really
speak
to
to
french
women,
but
I
can
say
that
women
from
canada,
england
and
the
united
states
were
traveling
on
their
own.
B
Getting
jobs
on
their
own
phyllis
wed
is
really
interesting
because
she
was
interned
as
an
enemy
alien,
and
so
she
was
interned
in
eastern
france
simply
because
england
was
at
war
with
france
and
when
she
finished
or
when
she
was
released
from
from
that
imprisonment.
She
went
right
back
to
the
library
where
she
worked
until
she
retired,
and
so
I
just
think
of
her
courage.
B
A
Yeah,
I
mean
there's,
definitely
a
really
strong
kind
of
female
presence
in
the
story
and
working
at
the
library,
and
it
feels
like
it's
the
women
who
really
kind
of
drive
the
effort
to
keep
the
library
open,
and
you
mentioned
miss
reader
there
and
one
of
the
other
things
I
really
love
about.
The
book
is
its
host
of
kind
of
headstrong
heroic
female
characters.
A
B
One
thing
that
professor
cohen
has
in
common
with
the
writer
simone
de
gouvoir
is
that
they
both
had
to
pass
an
aggregation.
That's
a
really
hard
competitive
examination.
B
Very
few
people
passed
and
even
fewer
women
passed,
and
so
it
really
that's
something
in
french
culture
that
is
very
challenging,
and
so
I
I
have
a
lot
of
admiration
for
people
who
pass
that
test.
So
I
was
thinking
of
just
the
the
people
at
the
time
at
the
library,
just
the
the
interesting
fascinating
they
were
called
subscribers
at
the
time.
B
Unfortunately,
when
the
when
the
nazis
started
coming
to
the
library
more
and
more
often-
and
there
were
denunciations
of
members
and
of
the
staff
and
of
the
library
itself,
the
library
decided
to
burn
the
cards,
the
information
cards
of
their
members
for
the
members
safety
right.
So
that's
something
that
I
I
didn't
have
access
to
because
it
no
longer
existed.
B
But
I
I
did
a
lot
of
reading
that
the
paris
edition
of
the
international
herald
tribune
had
sections
every
day.
One
was
about
the
british
colony
in
paris.
One
was
about
the
american
colony
in
paris,
and
so
you
can
kind
of
see
there
was
this
colonization
of
the
city
by
these
people
who
came
in
and
just
loved
it.
So
much
I
I
was
really
in
awe
of
the
librarians
as
well.
B
You
know,
dorothy
reader
came
here
into
paris
on
her
own
in
in
1929
when
she
stayed
here
through
through
most
of
the
through
a
lot
of
the
war.
She
returned
to
the
states
where
she
worked
for
the
red
cross
and
raised
money,
and
then
she
went
to
bogota
colombia
and
worked
training
librarians.
So
she
worked
on
three
continents
which
a
lot
of
us
haven't
done
even
today,.
A
I
think
she's,
the
kind
of
person
when
people
say
you
know
if
you
could
have
dinner
with
one
person
or
you
know
if
you
could
spend
an
evening
with
one
person,
I
think
she
would
be
such
a
fascinating
person
to
sit
down
with
and
talk
to
so
you
said,
the
book
is
an
examination
of
the
relationships
that
make
us
who
we
are,
and
one
of
the
most
enduring
relationships
in
the
book
is
that
between
a
much
older
deal
and
her
next
door
neighbor
in
montana,
which
is
where
she
moves
to
after
the
war
lily
who's
12..
A
B
Well,
I
the
whole
point
of
this
book
to
me
is
the
transmission
of
stories.
Just
like
we
have
transmission
of
stories
and
novels.
We
have
transmissions
of
stories
from
friend
to
friend
from
family
members
and
we
pass
these
stories
down,
and
so,
when
I
first
sent
out
the
book
to
agents
and
to
editors,
some
people
wanted
me
to
cut
the
lilly
story.
B
The
of
the
of
the
young
character
in
montana,
who
is
told
this
story
by
odile
and
to
me
the
whole
point
of
this
story
is
that
lily
kind
of
inherits
all
of
the
people
at
the
library
she
inherits
all
of
the
subscribers
and
they
live
on
through
her
and
so
for
me,
that's
a
lot
of
about,
inter
intergenerational
friendships,
you
know
grandmother
granddaughter,
it's
just
a
wonderful
relationship
and
it's
very
warm
and
there's
not
maybe
the
stress
of
raising
someone
and
it's
just
it's
just.
I
think,
a
very
cozy
warm
relationship.
B
I
see
my
mother
with
her
granddaughters
and
it's
really
lovely
to
see.
There's
she
just
delights
in
it
and
that's
really
a
pleasure
and
that's
what
I
was
hoping
for
with
odile
and
lilly.
A
Yeah,
definitely
I
mean
I,
I
couldn't
really
imagine
the
story
in
any
other
way
without
having
lily
there,
because
I
think
she
enables
ordeal,
he's
kind
of
been
living,
quite
a
secluded
life
in
montana,
to
kind
of
really
open
up
and
and
access
that
part
of
her
past
and
kind
of
you
know
allow
herself
to
so.
You
know
go
back
to
those
memories
again,
so
yeah.
I
really
love
that
relationship
between
the
two
of
them
so
onto
onto
you
a
bit
now.
B
Always
been
a
writer
I've
always
you
know,
had
journals.
I've
always
scribbled
in
my
notebooks
and
in
journals,
I'm
always
taking
notes
when
people
are
talking,
I'm
usually
writing
down
what
they're
saying
at
some
point
watch
out
so
and
just
kind
of
figuring
out
what
it
means.
What
they're
trying
to
say
for
me,
I'm
really
drawn
to
places
like
montana
or
lycodes
or
like
paris,
with
a
really
strong
sense
of
place
and
within
those
those
settings.
B
I
really
am
interested
in
women
who
have
to
start
over
again
who
will
have
to
create
or
reinvent
themselves,
after
after
a
loss
or
or
after
a
difficult
situation,
and
how
they
gather
the
strength
to
continue
yeah.
A
No,
it's
incredible,
so
you
mentioned
your
first
book
moonlight
in
odessa
and
you
lived
in
the
ukrainian
capital
for
a
while,
and
obviously
the
paris
library
moves
between
montana,
where
you're
you're
from
originally
and
paris
where
you
live
now.
So
how
important
is
it
for
you
to
kind
of
experience
first
hand
the
places
where
your
books
are
set,
and
could
you
ever
imagine
writing
a
book
without
ever
having
been
to
the
city
or
the
country
where,
where
it
takes
place,
I
I
chose.
B
For
example,
I
wrote
the
book
who
enlightened
odessa
when
I
was
in
paris
and
I
was
missing
odessa,
so
it
was
kind
of
a
way
to
go
back
there
with
my
in
my
mind
and
remember
all
of
the
small
details
that
you
need
to
to
have
in
mind
when
you're
writing
a
book.
I
wrote
a
lot
of
this
book
in
paris
in
libraries,
so
I
was
maybe
homesick
and
thinking
of
my
own
family
and
friends
in
in
montana,
and
so
for
me
books.
Writing
a
book
is
a
way
to
travel.
B
I
don't
know
that
you
need
to
go
to
a
place
to
write
it,
and
I
think
that
would
be
sad
because
so
much
of
a
book,
so
much
of
writing
is
imagination,
and
so
I
I
would
hate
to
limit
myself
and
say
you
know
you
can't
write
about
vlad
of
a
stock
until
you
go
there,
especially
now
with
covid,
when
we
can't
travel.
A
Yeah,
no,
that's
that's
very
true,
so
I
first
went
to
paris
when
I
was
16
and
like
lily.
I
was
completely
obsessed
with
everything
to
do
with
paris
and
kind
of
just
the
idea
of
the
city.
A
I
think
a
lot
of
that
for
me
came
from
watching
the
film
emily
when
I
was
a
bit
a
bit
younger
and
that
kind
of
just
sparked
this
obsession
with
the
city-
and
you
yourself
studied
french
at
the
university
of
montana,
before
moving
to
france
to
work
as
a
teacher
after
which
you
joined
the
american
library
in
paris.
A
B
For
the
first
five
years,
the
book
was
actually
called
the
war
bride,
because
odile
was
a
war
bride
and
probably
maybe
closer
to
50
of
the
book
took
place
in
montana
and
was
was
a
lot
about
what
happened
to
odile
once
she
arrived
in
the
states-
and
I
did
a
lot
of
research
on
board
rides
and
it's
just
fascinating.
A
Definitely
so
the
book
is
filled
with
really
beautiful
lines,
encapsulating
the
magic
and
importance
of
public
libraries,
as
well
as
their
users
and
the
librarians
who
work
at
them,
and
one
of
my
favorite
lines
is
from
miss
reader
when
she's
writing
a
letter
to
the
library's
board
in
new
york,
trying
to
persuade
them
as
to
why
the
library
must
remain
open.
And
she
says
libraries
are
lungs
books,
the
fresh
air
breathed
in
to
keep
the
heart
beating
to
keep
the
brain
imagining
to
keep
hope
alive.
And
I
just
really
love
that
line.
A
Libraries
across
the
uk
have
worked
tirelessly
throughout
the
pandemic
to
continue
serving
the
communities
who
rely
on
them,
so
we've
seen
people
hand,
delivering
books
and
making
phone
calls
to
isolated
users
and
taking
the
joy
of
online
author
events
or
taking
the
joy
of
all
for
events
online.
So
what
do
you
think
the
role
is
of
libraries
in
our
society?
A
B
Libraries
are
so
important
because
we
aren't
all
born
with
the
same
advantages
and
so
to
me
what
libraries
do
is
they
really
level
the
playing
field
so
that
everyone
has
the
same
access
to
knowledge?
Everyone
has
the
same
access
to
computers.
Everyone
has
the
same
access
to
to
books
and
to
to
reading,
because
it
really
helps
kids
if
they
enjoy
reading,
because
so
much
of
school,
whether
it's
history,
class
or
even
story
problems
in
math
class.
It
comes
down
to
reading
and
if
kids
don't
like
books,
it
makes
school
very,
very
challenging
for
them.
B
I
know
in
the
states
the
libraries
are
lending
things
like
ties
and
suits
for
job
interviews,
and
so
this
means
that
someone
who's
from
a
disadvantaged
background
can
look
just
as
polished
for
a
job
interview
as
as
someone
someone
else.
So
it
really
gives
people
an
opportunity
to
shine
and
to
me
that's
what
libraries
are
they're
just
they're,
they're,
free
and,
and
they
are
for
everyone.
A
Yeah
definitely,
I
think,
as
as
you
say,
they
do
so
much
more
than
just
lending
books,
they're
kind
of
a
space
of
community
and
safety
and
refuge,
and
they
play
such
an
important
role
in
so
many
different
people's
lives.
A
So
many
of
the
characters
in
the
books
turn
as
many
of
the
characters
turn
two
books
in
terms
of,
in
times
of
both
personal
and
national
crisis,
which
is
something
that
we've
seen
happening
a
lot
during
lockdown.
So
why
do
you
think
it
is
that
people
turn
to
books
at
these
times
and
has
reading
and
writing
helped
you
deal
with
the
ongoing
challenges
of
the
past
year.
A
B
Think
people
are
spending
more
time
at
home
and
the
news
is
really
grim
and
so
I've
seen
people
turn
to
reading
I've
seen
them
turn
to
painting.
I
know
I
reread
some
children's
classics.
I
discovered
anne
of
green
gables,
which
I've
never
read
before,
and
so
it's
just
really
be
comforting.
It's
just
a
comforting
exercise
and
it's
also
creative.
B
You
know
when
you're
reading
the
book
does
have
to
work,
but
the
reader
does
the
other
half
with
the
imagining
the
characters,
imagining
the
situation
trying
to
put
ourselves
into
the
shoes
of
the
character,
and
so
I
think
it's
a
really
important
thing
to
do.
I
did
hear
of
a
few
people
who
just
the
lockdown
was
so
hard
on
them,
that
they
couldn't
concentrate
and
they
couldn't
read,
and
that
was
a
real
hardship
for
them.
A
Yeah,
no,
I
think
I
think
I
kind
of
moved
through
both
at
the
very
beginning
when
everything
was
super
overwhelming
I
just
couldn't
even
imagine
I
couldn't
pick
up
a
book.
I
was
just,
but
now
we've
kind
of
been
in
this
situation.
For
so
long.
I
find
myself
just
turning
to
books
all
the
time,
just
as
a
distraction
or
a
form
of
escape.
A
Are
there
any
particular
books?
I
know
you
mentioned
one
there,
but
there
are
there
any
other
kind
of
top
books
that
you've
read
that
have
kind
of
been
really
transporting
during
lockdown
or
your
kind
of
lockdown
survival
book
recommendations.
B
A
hard
question:
I'm
actually
reading
a
book
that
I
would
not
let
myself
read.
It's
called
the
paris
librarian
and
when
it
comes,
oh,
I'm
afraid
it
was
my
book
already
written
by
someone
else
and
it's
a
murder
mystery
and
it's
certain.
A
B
I'm
just
enjoying
being
in
the
library
again,
not
as
a
worker
but
just
kind
of
as
someone
someone
who's
kind
of
eavesdropping
on
this
murder
investigation,
and
so
it's
been
fun.
I
think
it
was
published
in
2016
by
mark
pryor
and
I'm
reading
bones
of
the
moon
as
well.
Bel
canto
is
a
book
that
I
return
to
right
away
and
I
almost
can't
read
it
anymore,
because
I've
underlined
so
many
lines.
B
Look
by
anne
patchett
and
I
know
I
know
I
enjoyed
the
dutch
house
as
well
so
by
her
amazing.
A
Great
well
just
finally,
what
can
we
kind
of
expect
to
see
from
you
next.
B
Well,
you
know
the
the
book
is
just
coming
out
after
a
long
wait
because
it
was
supposed
to
come
out
june
2020,
and
so
it's
just
coming
out
now
in
some
different
countries.
So
I'm
just
enjoying
the
process
of
talking
about
finally
being
able
to
talk
about
the
book
with
people
who
can
actually
read
it.
So
that's
kind
of
what's
next
for
me,
is
some
some
interviews
and
and
writing
some
articles
about
the
book
and
I'm
really
just
enjoying
the
thought
of
it
being
out
and
into
the
hands
of
readers,
lovely.
A
Cool
well,
thank
you
so
much
janet
for
speaking
to
me.
Today.
I've
got
a
copy
of
the
paris
library
here
and
yep.
A
It
is
published
by
two
rose
books
and
is
available
to
borrow
in
print
and
in
ebook
format,
and
you
can
find
out
more
by
visiting
your
local
local
library
online
or
by
using
a
borrowing
app
such
as
borrower,
box
or
libby,
and
I
really
can't
wait
for
other
people
to
experience
this
book
and
I'm
sure
we'll
be
hearing
much
more
about
it
throughout
the
year,
as
people
find
out
about
the
story
of
adil
and
lilly.
So
thank
you
so
much
again
janet.