”Istället för att plugga reflekterar jag över några rader i Lives of Girls and Women av Alice Munro . I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds – this was a comfort to me. I hear you. She used to read… but had outgrown her habit. This was the normal thing in Jubilee; reading books was … a habit to be abandoned when the seriousness and satisfactions of adult life took over. It persisted mostly in unmarried ladies, would have been shameful in a man. Tur att jag inte bor i Jubilee, då hade jag varit dömd att bli en gammal nucka. There was …”
Taggar: handla böcker och köp böcker. Läs bokrecensioner om kultur och litteratur. Istället för att plugga reflekterar jag över några rader i Lives of Girls and Women av Alice Munro . I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds – this was a comfort to me. I hear you. She used to read… but had outgrown her habit. This was the normal thing in Jubilee; reading books was … a habit to be abandoned when the seriousness and satisfactions of adult life took over. It persisted mostly in unmarried ladies, would have been shameful in a man. Tur att jag inte bor i Jubilee, då hade jag varit dömd att bli en gammal nucka. There was seldom anybody in the library except the librarian, Bella Phippen, deaf as a stone and lame in one leg from polio. The Council let her be librarian because she could never have managed a proper job. Inget riktigt jobb. Någon bibliotekarie med åsikt om det, kanske?
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