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Originally Posted by beartrack
My wife and I love the Mark Twain Library. It's the way things used to be. But that was a long time ago. Redwitch, I made you an offer, How about it ?? By the way, I know many young people that read westerns and based on the age's of folks living in The Villages, I would guess that you might observe old men as you put it, everywhere, not just at the library reading westerns. It seems to me that you are profiling, and there are laws against that ( once more, just kidding, I think ) By the way, based on your "part time experience" at the library, What do old ladies read?????
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I love reading about how much Villagers love libraries.
And I am getting a kick out of this little exchange about who reads what.
Well, beartrack, you asked, and when you did, it made me think of something I wrote a long time ago. Here it is………………
I am about to do a very bad thing. I am going to recommend a book that I have never read. (I sometimes find myself in the position of recommending books.) This one is a book that I thought was going to set the woods, or something, on fire when I got some friends to read it.
The book is an older one. It is
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, and it is the first in a series.
Here's how I found out about this book.……
I had gone to a meeting where there were lots of word-nerds. The talk turned to favorite books. Someone mentioned
Outlander and suddenly many of the women in the room went into a frenzy. Yep. It was a frenzy. Just imagine a bunch of lady word-nerds in a frenzy. It started with whispers and giggles. Then turned into quite a buzz. And I think a couple of those women might even have fainted.
Outlander is a time-travel romance, sort of. After witnessing the reaction in that room, I bought the book immediately, of course. But I had a lot going on at work at the time. This thing is 600 pages long. I did not have time to read it, but I told several friends about it and about the reaction in that meeting room. And I loaned out my copy, planning to read it later.
This book set off a chain reaction as my friends told other friends about it. One friend went to the library to get it, and the librarian she asked about it nearly burst into joyous flames as she searched the shelves for the well worn copy.
The woman who is the main character in
Outlander time-travels into Scotland’s history, and meets herself a hot Scot...and…..
welllll…… and……
welllllll... the book is quite full of history and such. (Yeah, uh huh, that's it.)
Maybe I should have put this recommendation over in the Girl Talk thread.
Boomer
PS: Even though this is from a long ago post, I still do not have my book back. Perhaps it got all steamed up and became illegible or maybe it was involved in spontaneous combustion somehow. I think I will have to go find a new copy. And this time I will read it. And something tells me that there is a well-worn copy of this at the Mark Twain library. I hope so anyway.