BOOKS: Missing Libraries?

Are you missing the opportunity to visit your library in the current virus lockdown?

Try listening to this 7 minute article on what you’re missing, by Umberto Eco, writing somehow despite having his tongue firmly in his cheek.  The essay “How to Organize a Public Library” is selected and read by Booktube creator Shawn D Standfast.

It is hilarious – but one or two items ring alarmingly true….

Advertisement

3 comments

    • At the end, the reader says it is humorous and hilarious – a satire/joke. It was written “tongue in cheek”. So perhaps you can listen again and enjoy it as the ridiculous story it was intended to be. I love libraries.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s