57 years overdue...

Marissa D · Dec 19, 2016

Brooklyn woman returns library book...57 years later

In her 20th-floor apartment on the East Side of Manhattan, on a recent Saturday afternoon, Barbara Roston was busy explaining that she was definitely not a thief.

“It was a youthful indiscretion,” she said, “I didn’t mean to steal it.”

And yet, there it was, sitting on her desk: A faded green copy of “Gone With the Wind,” by Margaret Mitchell, that belonged to the Brooklyn Public Library.

It was 57 years overdue.

Good thing they don't charge interest!

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/n...es.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0

Lillian_Blaire · Dec 19, 2016

Oh, geez. Why would she bother? Pay the $25 and move on, I say.

Layla Nahar · Dec 19, 2016

maybe she is on an unhoarding spree?

shakeysix · Dec 19, 2016

Hah. I have one here from the Cook County, Illinois Library. I was spending Thanksgiving with a college room mate and .... never mind.--Shannon Jones

Jade Rothwell · Dec 19, 2016

I have a library book that was given to my by my friend, who got it from her mom, who borrowed it from the library. I feel really guilty about having it but, I don't even know which TOWN it's from, much less which library. And when was it borrowed? Must be at least a decade ago. So it just kind of sits on my shelf, looking all out of place with its sticker. Whoops

57 years overdue...

Marissa D

Scribe of the girls in the basement

Lillian_Blaire

Procrastinator Extraordinaire

Layla Nahar

Seashell Seller

shakeysix

blue eyed floozy

Jade Rothwell

rolling dice