If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now

Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy , Fiction

The slightly warped logic of that sentence (what is it, a developer’s advertising tag?) has been popping into my mind lately. For a slightly warped reason, I admit.

I’m rereading Flashforward, the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer that is of course the basis for the hot new TV series of the same name.

What’s the connection? Just that the book has been in the library’s collection for ten years, a long time before Hollywood discovered it.

So why wait for blockbuster adaptations or bestseller lists or any of the other indications of mass demand? Come talk to your librarian if you want a good recommendation. There are all kinds of great books that are sitting waiting for you in the library stacks, and we’re happy to talk to you about them. If you can tell us about a few books you have enjoyed, we can find you others that you may love as much. Works for music and movies, too.

Hey, you’ll be so far ahead of the crowd that you could even go off and pitch adaptations to movie and TV studios. (Someone needs to tell George Clooney about Alan Furst’s The World at Night.)

Or you’ll just be snugly curled up in your own home with something wonderful to read.