The MANIAC, when fiction becomes reality.
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Hi all,
Benjamin Labatut wrote a master piece. The MANIAC a brilliant novel about real people who changed our lives forever.
Ann
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I loved The Maniac; thanks for the review, and good luck on your future plans! You will be an excellent librarian.
Ageism is absolutely real. I taught school for 24 years, and at about 20 years, I had inquiries about retirement. I was only 55. I felt more pressure until I walked out the door. Technology and speed were top-no consideration for the children’s needs. I’m so sorry for you. It’s hard not to take it personally. I also agree you will be a great librarian. I believe I own at least ten new books because of your recommendations. I’ll pray for your steps forward.
Full steam ahead!! You will be a great librarian and the world needs people who love & want to preserve our written culture!!
I’m about 2/3 of the way through. It’s amazing. I’m being blown away too.
I hope your new career opportunities open up. AI is definitely going to be a game changer for many careers. I was once a computer programmer but AI was never my field.
Good luck with your new direction! I can imagine you being brilliant at that kind of thing.
I hope you enjoy your library studies. I’m sure you will be great.
Thank you, Brian.
Ann, I’m sorry that you have been going through a painful time. Your attitude, to try something new, is admirable and I wish you much success on your path to librarianship. Any library would be lucky to have you working there. Bon courage.
Enjoy your new beginnings!!!
Hey, Ann, I'm also a librarian and can say it's the best profession for someone who cares a lot to share their life with books and the art of looking into life without fear of the mass mind. The great gift of down-time is the time and presence to inhabit your real self completely. Have been there too and came out of such a major transition with great joy and gratitude. Enjoy the ride!
Always take the chance. If I could go back in time I would’ve taken a library science degree course. ❤
I wish you the best of luck, I'm sure that at least moving forward in an educational setting will help bring opportunities to you. Ageism is real for sure. I'm 57, got my library MA 20+ years ago but never actually got started because I had children and life intervened. Now I can't seem to get a job in my local library (mostly due to my lack of enthusiasm for the idea of leading the babies sing/song sessions 😂) Nowadays, public libraries seem to be all about the community focus, which is obviously good, but the whole book side of things is not so important anymore. Just my observations! I think you'll have more luck!
Librarianship is a capacious field so there’s lots of variety in the work, but yes, getting the first job is hard. I entered the profession late in life and did an internship in my early 50s. A sample size of one isn’t predictive but it is possible to make a later in life career change. I’ll be cheering you on.
If I don’t try I will never know.
Dear Ann, you have to try ! You have a place as a librarian ! This is a great projet ! Enjoy and "tout le reste suivra" 🌟🌟🌟
On verra! ☺️
wow...that's a heavy blow...
I enjoy very much your videos and recommendations. Many of the books I’ve read lately are because of you. Good luck with this new adventure and I hope it works for you. ❤
Thank you Claudia!
BTW: my Dad and several family members actually knew Jonny from the Los Alamos days!!
Hi Ann, I’m so sorry to hear about your job! I admire you for your choice of investing your time and energy into something you believe in and would really like to do. I’m sure you will be a great librarian!♥️I hope you’ll get a positive reaction from your local library, if that is what you really wish, but I’m also wondering whether a thirty-hour work week wouldn’t be too much next to a full-time study… Best of luck with everything and do keep us posted.
I’m looking forward to reading The Maniac, especially with your good recommendation. Your career change sounds very interesting. I went to library school when I was 45 and have never regretted it. Sadly, I could not have imagined how nightmarish things would become for some U.S. librarians. But Belgium appears to be a sane country!
Oh yes, we don’t ban books. 🤓
Thanks for the review, Ann! I think I'd like this one 🎉
I’m pretty sure you will!
Thanks a lot for sharing your bits of life. I am sure you can be a very good librarian pulling off all sorts of recommendation list.
Just hypothetically even putting environmental collapse aside, I don’t see much hope for people without some kind of UBI. Each successive generation is encountering new and augmented challenges. No one should be in this position, but shoulds and shouldn’ts don’t count for much - as you say, trying to do something seems right.
How disconcerting to have your career disappear overnight. AI is moving so fast. Your success in getting Julian translated is quite amazing (my copy is on the way) and I know you will be a great asset as a librarian. Can't wait to read The Maniac.
Thank you! ❤️
Oh Ann, I'm genuinely sorry about your job. I'm really hope you can find success and fulfillment in your new career as a librarian. I hope you can find a way to cope in the meantime. I'm new to your channel and I've been enjoying it, as you probably gathered with our recent IG messaging :)
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Oh man. I'm sorry to hear that A.I. is taking over your job. It's a sad and scary reality that is infecting every industry. It causes me to worry a lot. I wish you the best with your librarian sciences studies. A lot of my close friends are librarians and they find it very rewarding.
What will the world look like in 5 years?
So many things to chat about! First your new idea abut librarians...reminded me of something that just happened to me. My maiden name is Dumas and I have long loved Alexanders' writing, so I decided that I would really like to make a collection of all of this books, plays and short stories. In the Preface of one book the man told the story of finding the manuscript. (We all know that AD was French) however, this MS was found in the attic of a very old convent in Belgium. The person borrowed it, translated it and did, what looks like, self publishing. Leaving all of that aside, the book was fabulous and definitely would have been a best seller back then. When you were talking I thought of this immediately and how the history of the convent and sisters allowed this pile papers to get put in a cart and moved hundreds of miles away only to be discovered 100's of years later. Interesting, no? I think I will take some of my other thoughts over to our Voxer time together if you don't mind.
Sorry to hear about the loss of your job to a computer no less. But you are a strong, intelligent woman and I have no question that what ever you put your mind to it will be accomplished.
Problem is that not many people see that.
@@AnnNovella But I have no doubt you will show them.
Wow so exciting!! You will make an amazing librarian! Very cool that there is a specialty for classics like that. Will you have assigned reading for your course or is it more practical/tech coursework?
Dunno yet if I have to read books
@@AnnNovella Oohh keep us updated!!
The Maniac sounds intirguing. AI is coming for many of our jobs... writers, accountants, even teaching... good luck with your new direction towards librarianship... Cassanova, Chairman Mao and Laura Bush all worked as librarians at one time or another...
Thanks Jim,🙏
Dear ANN ,
Librarians do move.They are the only few who do really move places .They trot, fly and even move across the constellations through the medium of the printed and recorded words. You'll do immense good to people who love books.
With love and best wishes
JAYACHANDRAN CHANDRASEKHARAN
Thank you so much
Best of luck in your courses. I am sorry that your career is gone so suddenly. It's incredible how quickly AI is taking over entire professions.
I would imagine ageism is a reality in every country, but I hope I'm wrong. I am 57 and I am trying to find a new job but not a new profession and it isn't easy. My age is definitely a negative.
short-sighted adding machines not thinking of quality but pfennings. Sigh. Go and be brilliant elsewhere: the ultimate revenge.