I’m not saying that being a librarian isn’t fun. Running Story Times with the kids is a mix of fear and hilarity, Linda is genuinely funny and her Elf pranks this year have been top notch, but like most jobs there’s also paperwork, customer complaints, and mundane tasks too.

Today however was Fun with a capital F. I’m so glad I asked Catherine, our Novel Writing Mentor, to hold her book launch in the community meeting room. For a start her book is really good. I get a few self-published books into my book blog every year and honestly the quality is spotty. Some are amazing and you’d be asking yourself how they didn’t get picked up by one of the mainstream publishing houses, but then you read another and struggle to finish it. I’ve changed my book review policy this...

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