At the Library

I joined my local library when I moved to Brighton (UK) in 1987. I didn't go that often. I would take my kids now and then when they were little and they would choose books. But I had a 50-hour-a-week job and the two small kids. The library was half an hour away and it wasn't easy to find 90 minutes to walk there, look about, and then get back. So I didn't go for myself very much. In fact, I…