A major urban public library pleasure.

I love being part of a major urban public library.

One of my favorite things is to see how many other people have things on hold, when I go to put in a request for a book.

It makes you feel so connected to pockets of what's going on across the city, if there's a lot of other people waiting!

I also went recently to put in a request for an interesting-sounding novel by the guy who wrote True Grit, since I had seen a mention of his other books in his obituary and one in particular caught my eye, and there was like 6 or 7 people in line for this book that came out in the 80s.

How cool is that?

I'll probably never know who they are, but they're out there.