Redbox?… No, Biblioteca Viva!
Upon arriving at the mall yesterday, I was told that Conne
needed to return a book. As she is 13, she had a current YA title about a young
and troubled girl. I thought that there must be a library in the mall, and
there was, sort of. When we
arrived, we went to a store called Biblioteca Viva.
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| Audio/Computer booths on left, and books on right & upstairs |
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| The cashier/librarian |
It is a private book club, where you pay a membership fee
per month and are able to rent books, similarly to how, in the States, we rent
movies from Blockbuster or Redbox.
There were stations to listen to audio books, use the Internet, and
stacks and stacks of current and popular titles to check out. In the mall, there were also
bookstores, which I had a very hard time leaving. (I told my family when they were ready, they would have to
tell me because otherwise I would just keep browsing without thought of
time.) I asked my family if there
were any public libraries in Concepcion, and after some discussion among them,
it was decided that there were 3.
Perhaps I will find one to visit and report back before I leave.
At the mall, I could not help but be struck by the contrast
between the mall and Santa Ana, which I had visited earlier in the day with
Storey. I had strong flashbacks to
Louisiana, when I travel from the rural places near home back to the university
and Baton Rouge. The comparison of
the two worlds in one location is always striking for me.
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