Chapter One-Hundred Thirty Five: The Library of Unrequited Love

The Library of Unrequited Love, by Sophie D'Ivry, is a very long monolog translated from the French.  This strangle little book came into my possession thanks to my grandmother, and as someone studying to be a librarian, it was particularly resonant, as the monolog is spoken by a somewhat disgruntled French librarian.  She works in the geography section (located in the basement!) of a small library in a smallish French town, and one morning she finds someone who was accidentally locked into her part of the library overnight, which provokes the monolog that is The Library of Unrequited Love.  Our heroine explains her love-hate relationship with the library's classification system (UDC, or Universal Decimal Classification, a slight modification of the Dewey Decimal System), her unrequited and probably unknown crush on a young man who frequents the library, her personal quirks and likes and dislikes and past, and her reverence for the French Revolution, among other things.  This is kind of an insane little book, but I enjoyed reading it nonetheless, especially since it's fairly different from what I normally read.