What's Your Story?

The Theme for Library Week this year is "Whats Your Story" so we thought we would ask a few people a couple of questions to get their story.

It's interesting to hear the answers. A couple of the librarians identified the most important book as their first really adult book or their favourite experience as being able to choose from the adult shelves for the first time.

Clint Brown from Times FM in Rodney said the book that he really wanted to read next is a title "How the All Blacks won the World Cup in 2011!!" I am sure there are quite a number of people that would be keen to read that one. I also loved the answer he gave to what book would he read his children. "Kapai the Kiwi books... they learn story telling with a bit of maori, poetry and great things to do by just being a kiwi and great places to go in New Zealand, so we go out and do what Kapai does." What a fantastic idea.

People find the hardest question to answer is actually the shortest - The best book I have ever read. Personally I had about three in my answer and then realised last night that I hadn't even mentioned one I absolutely adored that I read about ten years ago called Flanagan's Run (Tom McNab). I don't think we have that particular title in the Rodney Libraries but we did have others from that author last time I looked. And quite topically, Tom was once on the International Olympic Committee and his books reflect his background in athletics.

People come into the library for all sorts of different reasons. So why not drop us a line and tell us your answers to all (or any) of these questions.

The best book I have ever read?
The book(s) that I am reading now?
The book I want to read next?
The book I would read to my children (or grandchildren)?
Favourite library memory, experience or pastime?

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