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How to Be a Better Reader, With Librarian Margaret H. Willison (RECAST)

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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If a Book Is Making You Mad, Put It Down

If a book's making you mad and you don't have a piercing need to document the accuracy of that fury, put it down. Set it free, put it in one of those little, free, little libraries, and let it find a good home with some one who's meant to love it. Librarians are trained in a service called readers advisory. It's really like you can go in and you can be like, i love inception. What's a book that's going to be like the movie inception? And librarians will no, and it doesn't matter if they hate inception, they're still, we're trained to understand your taste,. Help you identify the dragon

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