Fiz|فيز (Substack link in bio)'s Reviews > Public Library and Other Stories

'This same book in a stranger's hands - half-known.
Those readers, kindred spirits, almost friends.
You are in transition; you are on the threshold.
The library is the place that gets you. Pure gold'.

-Jackie Kay.

A must read book highlighting the importance of libraries and how valuable libraries are to society. With book bans and library closures reading this is so imminent. Literary activism at its best. Read what libraries mean to me and a love letter to libraries on my blog here- https://fizwrites.website.com/website...

'The importance of libraries was recognised by the Public Libraries Act 1850 and affirmed by the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. Because libraries have always been a part of any civilization they are not negotiable. They are part of our inheritance'.

'Fiction is impossible but enables us to reach what is relatively truth. What the writer does is not so much to solve the question, but to put the question. There must be the question put. That seems to me a very nice dividing line between the truth and the false writer'.

'For me libraries represent a serendipity of learning. It's as if some internal compass draws you to areas which you never imagined visiting.'