What kind of book am I?

This is an entertaining story, but I don't have anything to say about it. It's about borrowing people at a London library. Each volunteer, or living book, was catalogued and available for check out; there was Gay Man, Person with Mental Health Difficulties, Muslim, and even Ex Gang Member.

The idea, which comes from Scandinavia, is simple: instead of books, readers can come to the library and borrow a person for a 30-minute chat. The human “books” on offer vary from event to event but always include a healthy cross-section of stereotypes.

The first Living Library, he said, had been held at a music festival in Denmark in 2000 and since then had toured extensively, mostly in Norway and Hungary.

In the London library, people were borrowed several times each for 30 minute reads during the Living Library and it looks like it was successful at getting stories told. I just wonder, like in some of the recent publishing scandals, if any of the books lied.

Okay, I thought about what my category might be if we did this in my library. I think I would be Regrets Career Choice. I would talk about how I could have been a doctor or an architect or an actor or a garbage man or a washroom attendant or a beggar instead of a librarian. And then I would cry for the next 28 minutes.