Mr. and Mrs. Swellesley are crowd sourcing their efforts to return to marital harmony. We need your help, dear readers, and you needn’t be a licensed anything to guide us back on the path to joy. Here’s the situation: a certain person who shall not be named, except in the headline of this post, on Saturday dropped a pile of books off at the RDF. This pile of books contained the following three extremely well-marked items on loan from the Wellesley Free Library:
Bowlaway, by Elizabeth McCracken
On the Same Page, by N.D. Galland (ironic title given the situation, no?)
Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
You ask what a certain member of our household was doing with so many books that none save the idle rich could read in the 3-week lending period set by the library?
Now you sound just like Mr. Swellesley. Stop taking his side.
If you find these books, please either return them to the library or contact us at theswellesleyreport@gmail.com so that we may come fetch them.
Having misplaced library books in the past, I was extraordinarily surprised and disappointed to learn from the WFL that an offer of a donation of 10 hard cover books to replace the one I lost waa not something they would consider! Instead, I had to pay full retail value to replace a book that wasn’t even helpful. What’s the rationale behind this misguided policy?
I am making a donation to your publication in the hopes this will help pay the Library in case the books are not found and to bring back marital harmony.
Thanks Miguel, uh, yeah, we really lost 100 books, so make sure you cover that…
He must have read Marie Kondo.
We have not been unaffected by Marie Kondo (see “Not everything sparks joy in our kitchen — Marie Kondo’s influence”), but I’ve only watched 1 episode of her show, and that was plenty for me (Mr. Swellesley).
1. Suggest you take a picture of the book covers & post @ RFD with article above plus a finders fee (read $) for time/effort involved asap.
2. You will have to reimburse the WFL if you don not find them
Good idea on posting the article there, and oh yes, we’re well aware we’ll need to reimburse library if the don’t surface.
Do you remember where you put them? That would help because the shelves seem really full right now, with some books in a row in front of a second row behind.
We have a general idea, but given that life is a blur, not sure Mr. Swellesley’s memory is precise.
Too funny but not funny if you know what I mean!!
this is why i love this paper! good luck restoring marital and bibliographic harmony