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  1. Carlos Ruiz Zafón _ El laberinto de los espíritus

    Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba «las lecturas que toda señorita debe leer y que nadie quiere que lea». Doña Lorena decía que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. «Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas». Durante la guerra la metieron en la cárcel de mujeres y dijeron que se había ahorcado en su celda.
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  2. Marilyn Johnson _ This Book Is Overdue!: How

    So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They're sorting it all out for us.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.
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  4. Neal Stephenson _ The Confusion

    The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.
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  5. Philip Nel _ Was the Cat in the Hat Black?:

    Children's books can break {the} silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and defended by cultural gatekeepers.
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  6. David Davis _ Librarian's Night Before

    Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.
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  7. Ben Katchor _ Julius Knipl, Real Estate

    Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for."
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