I recently finished Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records and found this in the acknowledgements at the end: The Book of Records, guided by histories, letters, philosophies, poetry, mathematics and physics, is a work of the imagination. I am indebted to the library, and to librarians, archivists and translators, for their companionship and light–they are the steadfast keepers of the building made of time. I like how this blends the people and infrastructure of libraries and record keeping...
