Several months ago, a co-worker asked me for the name of my celebrity crush.
"Carrie Brownstein," I said.
I didn't really have a celebrity crush, but Carrie's name jumped out. On "Portlandia," she was smart, whimsical and tough. I had checked out her memoir from the library the previous week and had just begun reading it.
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Librarians like serious talk about education and life-long learning, but the library is also the perfect place to get light reading, like a celebrity memoir that you wouldn't want to actually spend money on or need to keep on your home bookshelves forever. It's the Readers' Bill of Rights again with the right to escapism.[1]
There is great value to being able to borrow any library book that seems appealing. Yet in this Modern Love essays, even this fluffiest of books got the reader thinking about the nature of his own romantic relationships (and also a publication credit in the New York Times, which is nothing to sneeze at.)
[1]See, How to Tap Your Inner Reader
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