Let me start out by saying: I don't want you to think that we here at the library just make fun of what patrons check out.
Because we really don't. That often.
The thing is, we have regulars. People who are in several times a week and who place holds all the time. We get to know these people. Or, at least, their book and movie preferences.
Sometimes when we get our delivery of items from other libraries in the county and are pulling them out, we try to guess which piece is for which patron.
A huge book on motorcycles? Gotta be for John. Three more Nora Roberts novels? Either Mary or Sue. A brand new movie that is circulating for the first time? Rob. (How does he do it? He always gets things first!)
(*sidenote: names are changed...just in case.)
And then we have our romance novel-readers. Three regular ladies who we know exclusively get books with pictures of long-haired, bare-chested men holding onto a rope on a ship or bending a corseted women back in what looks like a pretty uncomfortable embrace.
Not my thing. Not my thing at all.
The most I read of these books is their back covers. And why would I only read them to myself when I have coworkers to entertain?
Dramatic readings from the back covers of romance novels can be a truly amusing pastime I feel that public speaking and theater classes I have taken in the past have helped prepare me for this.
Usually I start off in a low, dangerous tone as I describe the lord or duke who is rich, handsome, and devil-may-care. I move on to the innocent peasant girl whose beauty is only surpassed by her spunk. My tone turns incredulous as the summary goes on to describe a possible romance between these two unlikely and attractive characters. WILL THEY FIND TRUE LOVE?
*rolls eyes*
Because we really don't. That often.
The thing is, we have regulars. People who are in several times a week and who place holds all the time. We get to know these people. Or, at least, their book and movie preferences.
Sometimes when we get our delivery of items from other libraries in the county and are pulling them out, we try to guess which piece is for which patron.
A huge book on motorcycles? Gotta be for John. Three more Nora Roberts novels? Either Mary or Sue. A brand new movie that is circulating for the first time? Rob. (How does he do it? He always gets things first!)
(*sidenote: names are changed...just in case.)
And then we have our romance novel-readers. Three regular ladies who we know exclusively get books with pictures of long-haired, bare-chested men holding onto a rope on a ship or bending a corseted women back in what looks like a pretty uncomfortable embrace.
Not my thing. Not my thing at all.
The most I read of these books is their back covers. And why would I only read them to myself when I have coworkers to entertain?
Dramatic readings from the back covers of romance novels can be a truly amusing pastime I feel that public speaking and theater classes I have taken in the past have helped prepare me for this.
Usually I start off in a low, dangerous tone as I describe the lord or duke who is rich, handsome, and devil-may-care. I move on to the innocent peasant girl whose beauty is only surpassed by her spunk. My tone turns incredulous as the summary goes on to describe a possible romance between these two unlikely and attractive characters. WILL THEY FIND TRUE LOVE?
*rolls eyes*
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1 comment:
I could see where you could have an event at your library and not only entertain your coworkers but the general public as well. You could read not only these covers but covers of others books as well they boarder on the hyperbole. I laugh at some of the books I love because if you read the cover then the hero is saving not only a person in need but perhaps the whole world from destruction. Not only once but time and again.
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