What a unique perspective you have on the literary world: what are people reading when the only barrier to entry is a library card and some free time?

I imagine you've got to make room for a butt-load of dystopian YA fictoin and Hunger Hames knockoffs.

Boston completed a major overhaul of their library a few years ago. I wrote about it here. It was amazing to see how many fewer books were there after the change. But the library had a lot more people in it, and I guess that's the important thing.

I'd like to hope there might be some Georges Simenon Maigret novels left alongside the Doyle and Christie. Maybe I ought to head over to the library and check out a couple copies if they're still there.