It is assumed that “The Librarian” project was started around 2013, a librarian at a library in Oslo, met a young woman in the library who was confused about what to read. Eager to help, librarian he was, to spare her the choices between the endless shelves of books, they agreed he’d reserve (and later, when the pandemic hit: send) her a new book for every book she finished.
– “It’s like a masochism of the mind!”
exclaimed a woman who first heard about this agreement. The reader did after hall have to finish all the books in order to get new ones, whether she liked them or not. This way she would be exposed to thoughts and worlds she would never otherwise have visited.
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The Librarian just sent us: Ephemeral City by Simon Groth
The character of every city is organic and evolving, built over time by generations of stories that are […]
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Thomas Korsgaard – Hvis det skulle komme et menneske
Flyfoto av gården. Danske flagg i vinduet. Porselen fra Royal Copenhagen på veggene. Hun hadde fått ett for […]
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Bibliotekarens anbefaling: Løpe Ulv av Kerstin Ekman
Ulf Norrstig er 70 år, pensjonert skogvokter og formann i det lokale jaktlaget. Han har vært gift med […]
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The Librarian recommends: If Books Could Kill , a podcast on the behalf of self help books
If books could kill is a podcast that with enthusiasm and wit dissicates the phenomenon of self help […]
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Notes from The Right Plaice, reading Pulse by Julian Barnes
THE PREVIOUS NOVEMBER, a row of wooden beach huts, their paintwork lifted and flaked by the hard east […]
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Vente og ikke se – Tor Ulven
Man kan bli fryktelig skuffet, tenker hun, over ikke å få en ting man har ønsket seg lenge, […]
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Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
“Have you ever had an insultingly easy breakup?…. Just a shrug and a, thanks for the honesty?” What […]
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Heime Aleine av Linda Breidablik
Alt er liksom linjer, men kjennest som ein stabel, nei, som ein haug, ein haug av tid og […]
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Life is meaning by Viktor Frankl
“Any attempt at fighting the camp’s psychopathological influence on the prisoner by psychotherapeutic or psychohygienic methods had to […]
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The Tiger – John Vaillant
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t […]
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Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers. The house becomes […]
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Dette er eit teaterstykke
Dette er eit teaterstykke som straks er over. Vi ser ein gamal kjerreveg, og på kjerrevegen står ei […]
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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
from Deaf Republic: 1 BY ILYA KAMINSKY Such is the story made of stubbornness and a little air, a story […]
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Albert & The Whale
Dürer ought to know better than to go fishing for such monsters. [1] [1] Philip Hoare, 4th Estate, […]
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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside […]