Reading year 2014: The Library of Unrequited Love is a love-rant to books and readers
In The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry (translated from the French by Sian Reynolds) a 60-ish librarian in a provincial town arrives in her basement domain—the Geography section, to which she feels she has been unjustly exiled by the bureaucrats of the public library system—and finds a reader asleep on a chair. He had been locked-in overnight. (A fantasy we had while growing up. We would be trapped in a library after hours and free to read everything we wanted. Then the books would come to life, or ghosts would turn up to do research.)