What can I say… I love me a bit of vocational awe.

A post that will be added to over time!

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Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood.

A fake fictional librarian this time! Elsie is the main character: a theoretical physicist who pays the bills by providing a fake girlfriend service via an app called Faux.

The Elsie that Caroline Smith wants is someone able to fit in with people who use summer as a verb, not flashy enough to attract a better catch than Greg, and with the nurturing instincts to take care of the son she might love but cannot be bothered to know. Children’s librarian seemed like a great fake profession. It’s been fun scouring online forums in search of charming anecdotes.

“Today I found three Goldfish crackers in our best copy of Matilda,” I say with a smile. Or at least Reddit user iluvbigbooks did.

“That is hilarious,” Caroline says without laughing, smiling or otherwise displaying amusement.

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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Defne is showing Mal around Zugzwang, the New York chess club where she’s been offered a fellowship (p. 61).

I nearly gasp when Defne shows me the library, something straight out of Oxford—if on a smaller scale. There are rows and rows of high shelves, fancy ladders, something that, from watching ‘Selling Sunset’ with Mom exactly twice, I believe is called a mezzanine, and—

Books.

So. Many. Books.

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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare

Draco shows Hermione around his substantial family library, Chapter 30

It was gratifying to be with her as she explored the library, which took up an entire wing of the Manor. It was part enormous reading room, part traditional stacks, part personal museum. Tall windows gave out onto the forest and the lake along the estate’s western edge. A fire crackled. Reading desks and oversized armchairs were placed in thoughtful arrangements here and there, lit by magical lanterns.

Granger’s gasps continued to be an enormous source of pleasure. She requested a tour. Draco provided. They wandered through the stacks and display cases. Granger queried Draco upon the classification system, on the Malfoys’ acquisition philosophy, on their weeding plan.

There was a soft light in her eyes.

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The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider, p.43

Emry’s jaw dropped as she pushed open the double doors of the library. Not from the chessboard marble floor, although that was impressive, nor the long wooden tables and velvet-upholstered chairs. Not even from the crests of the noble houses that bordered the ceiling, painted in what had to be real gold. She’d never seen so many books. They stretched two stories high, the second level bordered by a slim balcony with an iron railing and narrow spiral stair. It was a library in the same sense that a cathedral was a church.

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