Public library and other stories

“Public Library and Other Stories” gets a star simply for the title. And, the other two are for the inter-story commentary or quotes about the importance of the library in each person's life or the services that the public library system provides to the community. These interspersed vignettes are marvelous and I wish that Ali Smith had made the entire book a love letter to libraries.

Honestly, the short stories were really odd. I couldn't get into any of them, nor did they really say much about libraries. Maybe I'm just missing the boat on the author's style, which I found disjointed, a bit stream of consciousness, and not enlightening.