Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas is a memoir about life as a public librarian in Anaheim, California.
Haven’t read it yet but the reviews make for interesting reading; check out this one on One Minute Book Review compared to the one printed in the Scotland on Sunday yesterday.
I’m looking forward to reading it as I’ve heard some of the content is a bit controversial and I do like a bit of controversy! One reviewer described the lead character as a “Douglas Coupland slacker hero relocated from the world of e-commerce…”. Hmmm…do we really need our own Microserfs inspired book in celebration of ‘Gen X’ librarians – isn’t that a bit 90s? I’ll let you know when I finish it!
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Thanks for pointing out the Scotland on Sunday review (and mine …). I enjoyed the SOS critic’s comments on well-known librarians.
The librarian best known to book critics in the U.S. is probably Philip Larkin, a librarian for many years at the University of Hull. So it was interesting to see the people a Scottish critic put in the category. Maybe you’ll list other literary librarians on your site at some point?