Bear
Book description
'A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.' -- Margaret Atwood
'Bear,' she cried. 'I love you. Pull my head off.'
Lou is a librarian at the local Heritage Institute who lives a mole-like existence, buried among maps and…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Bear as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Bear is a slim, easy-to-read story about an archivist who travels to a remote northern cabin to catalog its contents, discovering surprising insights about herself and the world. It is funny, it is insightful. It is also marketed as “a tale of erotic love between an archivist and a bear.” Yup. I promise you, though, that somehow it’s not weird – just delightful and strange and highly enjoyable.
As a young archivist, did I make my first professional conference presentation about this novel? Yes!
Did it limit my career?
Possibly!
Does that paper hold the record for most times “bestiality”…
From Amy's list on quirky archivists.
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