From chance encounters with neighbours to the 1970 Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook, a weekly trip to the street library is a special kind of joy
A converted kitchen cabinet acts as a street library near to where writer Andrew Masterson lives in Victoria, Australia.A converted kitchen cabinet acts as a street library near to where writer Andrew Masterson lives in Victoria, Australia.Even the Dan Brown novels were gone from the street library.
And we’ll greet each other and say wasn’t that a funny thing about the Dan Browns and laugh a little and add something stupid about how we must ensure it never repeats and then walk away and not see each other ever again.I don’t know who owns the street library. Possibly the matter is moot. I mean, someone must have put the structure in place. It’s a two-door, four-shelf repurposed kitchen cabinet, painted grey with orange edges and “STREET LIBRARY” stencilled on one side.
No one hurts the street library. Indeed, people take the trouble to reorder the shelves, make sure it’s all neat and tidy.I estimate I’ve put about 300 books in it over the past six months. Back home, I had more than 20 Dick Francis novels, from my mum, in the shed. I told her I would drop them up to the cabinet the following day. Mid-morning, I said.I did just that. Two days later, when I popped past again, they were almost all gone. They’ve never come back. I hope the woman took them and I hope they sit proudly in her house and they make her feel happy. They don’t need to come back.
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