Thanks to Naomi for writing about her fascinating selection of recent library audiobook reads, all of them nonfiction; plus several Canadian novels read from the library. I appreciate Elle for being my most faithful participant; here’s her latest borrowings. And welcome to Jana, who has contributed for the first time with a post about what her library system has to offer: the different ways she can access audiobooks, the non-media items that can be borrowed (such as gardening tools from a Library of Things), and take-home activity kits.

Have you heard of the “Human Library”? The tagline is “Unjudge someone.” The idea is that you sign up to hear about someone else’s experiences that are quite different to your own. Events are online or in person and have involved ‘human books’ from 85 countries. “We host events where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books and have conversations they would not normally have access to. Every human book from our bookshelf, represent a group in our society that is often subjected to prejudice, stigmatization or discrimination because of their lifestyle, diagnosis, belief, disability, social status, ethnic origin etc.” I would be fascinated to hear from anyone who has taken part in this initiative.

As for my own library use since last month:

READ

• Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
• A Fortunate Man by John Berger
• Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
• The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent
• Maame by Jessica George
• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
• Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
• England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial
• Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
• Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain after Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
• His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
• The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore
• We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
• Manorism by Yomi Sode

CURRENTLY READING

• Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
• Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
• This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray
• Islamic Mystical Poetry, ed. Mahmood Jamal
• Two Sisters by Blake Morrison
• Rain by Don Paterson

I also have some lovely piles out from the public library and university library to read soon.

What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?

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