Smallest Library in the World

[erastes]

Acle Library. I wish I could find a picture of it, but think of a drive-through McDonalds, and then make it a lot smaller. There are ...*thinks* six shelves of general fiction (less than head height high and about 10 feet wide) one of crime, one of teens, three of childrens. Some large print, some DVDs and 3 pcs. Don't ask me how they get any people in there. Four people and it's CROWDED. The staff room is bigger than the library. And you are very limited as to what they have. Which is, basically four Nora Roberts, Two Dan Pattersons and 240 Dan Browns.

Yes, yes yes. I should go to the Millennium Library in Norwich but I suck at driving in Norwich and in all the years I've been here I haven't a clue how to drive there. Norwich is nearly all one way traffic, make a mistake and you end up going in circles.  Anyway! I went to the tiny library today and got: 

H G Wells - War of the Worlds - I've only read this once and wanted to recall my youth
P G Wodehouse - Pearls Girls and Monty Bodkin - never heard of this one before but i lurve Pelham.
James Barclay - Shadowheart "It's been smouldering for years but now the conflict between Balaia's four colleges of magic has finaly blazed into furious life" Hmm. Sounds familiar. There's a Dark College, unsurprisingly.  I think this is the end or the middle of a saga, but I'll try it out.
Bernard Cornwell - Vagabond The sequel to Harlequin which I read recently. Men with big... bows!
Kelley Armstrong  - Broken - I'm starting with this one, about a female werewolf (the only one for some strange reason) who is pregnant (and it's an unheard of event) - again it's one of a series but seems to be a stand alone and I'm caught up on events. Trouble is it reads like not great fanfic, and the whole Pack/Alpha/vamp/demon thing seems so tired to me even though I haven't read any books on those subjects. Ho hum. Anyone read any of them?

I want THIS. But crap. Look at the price!

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the library in the town where I grew up. Do you have an interlibrary loan system?

[tharain.livejournal.com]

i lurve Pelham

You did, of course, recognize his quotes in my Ten Fave Quote meme...

[tharain.livejournal.com]

I want THIS. But crap. Look at the price!

FAB! But yeah, pricey.

Norwich

[carrielofty.livejournal.com]

So weird. I used to live in Norwich--well, the UEA campus, actually. I attended UEA for my 3rd year as an undergrad and met my husband there. I could NEVER find my way around. On foot even, I'd get lost. Keven used to tease me about it, but it couldn't be helped. I mostly mapped the path between various shops in the city center and a routine route to familiar bus stops. Any beyond that and I was a mess!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I bet you anything you like its smaller.

Yes - we can order books from any library in the county, and even outside the county but it's about 60pence per reservation - so really it would be cheaper for me to work out how to get into the Norwich library which is huge.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to ask - who is that green person in your icon?

Re: Norwich

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I swear the place is spellbound or something. It's SUCH a tiny place, and yet I just lose my sense of direction when I got anywhere near it. I can just about work my way around the inner ringroad, but forget driving around with confidence.

So amazing you lived there!

[tharain.livejournal.com]

It's a painting called "Demon Sitting In A Garden" by the Russian Artist M. Vrubel. There's a copy of it here:

http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/vrub.jpg

I'm not sure why I like it so, but I do.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oo thats nice. better in full size. I thought the blue was a bra!!!

[tharain.livejournal.com]

LOL No!

I gues I htought the demon looked all hot and pensive at the same time. I just love it.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

yike!

I bet you're right. 60p! Still cheaper than buying, I guess, but still.. how far away is the Norwich library?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

not far at all from work as I work in Norwich, its just plucking up the courage to actually DRIVE there, as I simply don't know the way and multimap is no help at all, and people - when asked for instructions - go "you turn left into Prince of Wales Road and then go right down Goose Lane, sharp right at Horses Neck..." and I'm just BLANK as although I've lived and worked here for 7 years now, I don't know norwich at all. Perhaps I'll ask if someone can come with me and point the way. once I've been once, I'll be ok!!