![]() ![]() The story unfolds somewhere in the UK, in a small village.īut Osborne’s telling of their meeting at the village library and the ensuing friendship between the young lad and the older female pensioner is anything but trite or sugary. It turns out that Maggie is, shall we say, old enough to be Tom’s gran. And so I got to know Tom, an awkward teenager who runs into Maggie, the other central character in the book. The first sentence – “My name is Tom Harris and I am invisible.” – seemed to be a rather odd hook. To my surprise, I sank into the story immediately, just as I did with The Midnight Library. ![]() Despite this, I started reading The Library, but still with a few mental reservations. Osborne writes a lot of feel-good fiction that generally veers toward chick lit, not that there’s anything wrong with that, by no means. My most recent read, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, propelled me to seek out even more books about libraries.ĭuring that search, I discovered Bella Osborne’s The Library. ![]() So it’s no surprise that I cherish books about books and libraries. The public library in my small town in eastern Washington state became my sanctuary. Reading saved me as a child, giving me a way to see the world outside the walls of my childhood home, offering me respite and escape from an often intolerable and hostile atmosphere. ![]()
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