Once I got to know a librarian

[kairos12]

at my local branch. We would talk about every day events when I checked out books.

I must have gotten real comfortable because once I was checking out a stack of books and she pointed at one and said “that’s trash.”

Didn’t offend me. I laughed my ass off.

Librarian judgement. Silent or not, it’s a thing.

[Pinback]

1. "I know. Have you read it?"

"Ooh, yes -- it's one of her best! I mean, worst!"

[yellowdogintexas]

2. my mom was a librarian and she was quite opinionated

regarding what she considered 'trash' reading.

She hated 'romance' novels, and what she called "oversexed" (too much detail, not enough redeeming other aspects)

However, would she have ever pulled anything from the shelves? Not just NO but Hell! NO!

During the "Harry Potter Books are demonic" era she adamantly stared down anyone who thought they should be removed. She told them to not let their child read them if that was how they felt but she wasn't going to move them

[LudwigPastorius]

3. I prefer to...

call that literary genre Garbáge.


...and sometimes you just gotta read it when things get too heavy.

[NNadir]

4. I used to have a librarian who used to bring me books and tell me I had to read them.

She got offended if I didn't take them out, so often I did.

We had, um, different tastes in reading.