For the past few weeks I’ve found a writing refuge in a really quiet little local library. I’d found a hidden spot behind a bookshelf with a table and power access for my laptop. Score! Free WiFi…check. Ear buds and Pandora to mask any ambient noise…check. It’s been working pretty well. I arrived today to find that someone had the audacity to sit in MY seat! *Sigh* I look around a bit for an alternate and I found an even better spot in the teen section. Comfy booth to sit in, natural light from the window (annoying construction outside the window that discourages me from gazing absently), no teens at noon on a school day, and best of all…look who’s here with me!!
Who am I to argue with this?
Ancient Armitage 
I think Richard Armitage would love knowing that Thorin is being used to sell reading. Yay!
I think so too…Thorin is in august company here…next to Superman, Batman and, oddly enough, a poster of a plate of nachos? “Feed your mind…READ!”
I love spots like that. It would be perfect for me as well, except I usually like a beverage in hand – coffee/tea/wine – and libraries, for good reason, frown on that sort of thing. But this is an extra special post. That is a Poster I would really want.
They don’t seem to mind here…I’ve always got a water bottle in my bag and I’ve seen people with travel mugs. They might have a different standard in “high child traffic” periods though.
Oh excellent. Then it really is perfect. 🙂
I think I might ask what they do with the posters when they take them down…I’d be willing to make a donation for that one 🙂
READ posters come from the American Library Association. They have a store where they sell them. I’m not sure if you can order without being a member (I always have been when I’ve ordered) but you could check it out. http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=157
Good to know! Thanks!! Welcome!!!
I went to the site. It’s great! There’s the poster. They even have buttons that say “Make reading a Hobbit!!
😀
Same here. I think this prompts me to make the rounds to my libraries to inquire.
But in the meantime, I did find this 🙂 , which requires a rather sizable “donation”:
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4071
That sounds heavenly! I was at an art exhibition on Sunday and we strolled into a blacked out room which screen some awful artsy movie, but there were beanbags scattered about! Beanbags!!! They felt like little clouds I could just sink in to. It was perfect 🙂
So here’s to our little secret hideaway places!
Here, here! I just looked to my right and there are two video chairs upholstered with leopard print and a mess of giant blue pillows scattered around a low table 🙂
Did you say something about a spot where you are undistracted? Fail of epic proportions!!!
I’m preferring to interpret it as Thorin guarding me from distractions…so I had to move to the other side of the booth to stop staring. Small price to pay 🙂
Ooooooh, so he has your back!!! I see. Good one.
Yes that, and the guy who sat down under the poster started making goo goo eyes at me when I continued to stare at Thorin…time to subtly switch side 🙂
Thorin, the matchmaker, now there is a new role for the grumpy dwarf. Your Eros post was not far off… 😉
You probably know someone at work who’s an ALA member, so I’d just ask them to buy you one …
That is true…I’m a preferred patron of the campus library since actually check books out 🙂
I was a preferred patron back when I taught in MO, too. The librarians grinned when they saw me coming. “You, alone, Servetus, justify our participation in the ILL system!” LOL.
:D. Every year they come up and ask if I have books I’d like purchased…every year I save the Oxford catalog for the occasion. It’s like a holiday 🙂
I’ve been that person too — what is with that? Why do people not want to order books?
Have you checked out Bookcrossing.com?
Typically, university / scholarly libraries can’t obtain books that way due to university ordering and bookkeeping systems. In this situation we’re trying to think as much about what students should have available to them as what we might like to read. Also, the library has to be able to keep the books it gets because they are catalogued.
Good to hear you have found a spot to write and what a lovely poster. I still have yet a spot to study, the family seems to be getting worse at bugging me once I try to. They also seem to be getting lax on the housework their to be helping with. Their going to have to step up when I start working on my final paper.
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