In Your Wildest Dreams Tag

Hi readers! This is my first time doing one of these tag videos. It was fun to think about. This tag was created by ‪@heathereads‬ and I was tagged by ‪@TheGrapeJellyLibrary‬ . Here are the prompts:
1. Your fantasy time and place to read a book
2. Your fantasy personal library (or your personal library if you have attained your fantasy!)
3. Imagine you have decided to build a bookshop. What would you call it? Would it sell new or second-hand books? Would it sell anything else? What features would you want in that shop?
4. One person (not a Booktube creator) with whom you can have a good conversation about books? If you don’t know a person like this, who do you know that you wish would become a reader so that you could talk books with them?
5. If you won a million dollars (or pounds or yen or Euros, etc) and you could only spend it on books or book related items, how would you spend it?
So much fun!
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[@BrentDavis75]

I'd definitely frequent the sort of bookshop you described.

[@leilawanders]

😁

[@TheGrapeJellyLibrary]

You did fabulous! You made me laugh out loud when you said you have a problem, you’d be buying your own inventory. Also, I like to know that the books that I read are mine as well. I don’t want to give them back. I’ll take a strawberry iced water and a cucumber hummus sandwich with bean sprouts, please. PS Flo, Flossy or Floss works for me. 😊 Post your goodreads link in your description. I’ll look you up.

[@leilawanders]

I will!

[@choppergirl]

Yep, a prison librarian lady would be your mind blowing ideal job. You get to sit there all day and talk about books. And they cherry pick the smartest nerds out of the prison population that don't really belong there and give them jobs as library aides who take care of all the passing out of supplies, refiling of books, etc and sit around and talk like you're on the set of Fawlty Towers. It's wild.
A prison library is like a whole other world, it's like an oasis alternate reality inside the prison and almost a world unto it's own, where for an hour a day the smart people get to forget where they are. A regular library by comparison is boring, and a book store... well, it's ok, you get gamers that come in on game night and add a bit of life to the place, but you got to pay bills and turn a profit and price things. A prison library as the library lady you're just an information desk, and the aides are sitting there reading women's magazines or repairing books that are threadbare and falling apart with plastic packing tape to keep them going as long as possible.
All these books are donated in my state through the Daughters of the American Revolution, so if you want to get any donated books into a prison library you have to go through them, unless you're mailing them directly in to an inmate as a gift... right from the publisher... which you can do.
Here's another book secret. The main branch of any large city... has the over flow storage area for itself and all the satelite branches, of books... not on the shelf. In my home city, it's upstairs on a second floor, that the public don't even know is there. Oceans of books. I got a tour of it one time courtesy of a friend on the inside.
The prison librarian doesn't really spend any time reading there... maybe at home. She's more like a queen bee holding down the fort and checking things in and out. They make a semblance of real life checking in and out and due dates, but the reality is if you want to you can sneak any book out you want to on the down load, and eventually it gets collected off the tables and makes its way back to the library anyway...