Still deep in thought, Josie wandered through reception in to the main belly of the library. The latter stood on five floors - the basement being the computer library, ground was home to fiction, DVD rental and the children's library, first to non fiction, second the reference library and speciality non fiction and finally the top floor which was home to the cafeteria and arts centre.
She climbed up to the first floor and wandered through the rows of silent shelves. Previously, she had only been up here for cookery books and once for a copy of "King Lear" when Joel had been thinking of auditioning for a play. She had never really thought to notice all the other different categories - religion, history, photography, psychology, meteorology...how odd that the World was full of these things that she never really paid any attention to.
The travel section was huge, spanning several bookcases. There seemed to be a book for every Country she could imagine as well as some for places she had never heard of. The pictures of beaches and rainforests, pyramids and cruise ships made her feel slightly giddy with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. Could she be the sort of person who would go jetting off to Paris or Rome or Los Angeles? The kind of girl who regaled friends at dinner parties with exciting stories of swimming with dolphins in the Caribbean or Flamenco dancing with a young Spaniard in Madrid?
Thoughts still racing she selected a pile of books for places she thought she might like to go and could reasonably afford and turned towards the check out machines. The clock on the wall above them read 4.55 PM - she had been in there for almost an hour, but she had her books, even if they were not the ones she had intended to borrow - and there was still plenty of time to get to "The Slug and Lettuce"......
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