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Tom Doherty Associates
Description
Fantasy. Fiction. Short Stories. HTML: From the award-wining fantasy author of the Dead Rivers Trilogy, comes Naomi Kritzer's enchanting Tor.com Original short story, "Little Free Library" Upon setting up her own Little Free Library that she built from a kit, Meagan develops an unexpected friendship with a mysterious book borrower. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied..
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LibraryThing member LisCarey
Meigan builds a Little Free Library to recycle books she's enjoyed but no longer wants to keep (okay, for me, this is one of the weird bits; I cling to my books.) One user in particular seems a little odd, but enjoyable. They take books, but instead of leaving other books, they leave little bits of
Also, sometimes they leave notes.
This becomes an odd sort of friendship at a distance, with Meigan wondering which of her neighbors it is.
Things get odder and odder, as the notes reveal more of the user's life.
It is, as one can fairly confidently expect from a Naomi Kritzer story, a bit weird, and sweet. In the end, this one is a little sad.
Recommended.
I bought this short story.
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artwork--drawings and small figurines, and once, a leaf, an actual leaf, that is almost, but not quite, a maple leaf.Also, sometimes they leave notes.
This becomes an odd sort of friendship at a distance, with Meigan wondering which of her neighbors it is.
Things get odder and odder, as the notes reveal more of the user's life.
It is, as one can fairly confidently expect from a Naomi Kritzer story, a bit weird, and sweet. In the end, this one is a little sad.
Recommended.
I bought this short story.
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LibraryThing member vwinsloe
Delightful!
LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Oh, cute. And majorly open-ended...what hatches out of eggs? Birds? Dragons?
LibraryThing member wanderlustlover
Spring 2020 (April);
This was a cute little thing, all about the life of a 'little free library' someone builds out in the front of their yard and the interaction between themselves and one of their loyal book borrowers. I loved what was here, but ended up feeling like the was almost too open-ended
This was a cute little thing, all about the life of a 'little free library' someone builds out in the front of their yard and the interaction between themselves and one of their loyal book borrowers. I loved what was here, but ended up feeling like the was almost too open-ended
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and I was left with too many questions about everything to feel like any door properly shut where we left off. Show Less
LibraryThing member crankybookwyrm
Delightful
LibraryThing member MarthaJeanne
This was a lovely short story.
Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Short Story — 2021)
Locus Award (Finalist — Short Story — 2021)
Original publication date
2020-04-08
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