![]() ![]() Disregarding the irritating cover, I rescued Harriet from the Little Free Library and took her home. With the recent virus-induced situation, I have more time to read and craved an old favorite. I refused to see this movie because I had such a vivid mental picture of everything in the book. ![]() I also loath movie tie-in covers and mine shows Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O’Donnell as Ole Golly. As an adult, every time I saw this book, I told myself the following: I don’t have time to read this, I should be reading grown-up books, there is no way that Harriet will be as good as I remember, I don’t like how she called her teacher’s apartment a “rat-trap,” I want a tomato sandwich. I hadn’t read this book since I was in the 6th grade, a year that I checked it out of the school library about once a month. ![]() The book is a yellowed, curled paperback copy of Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. ![]() One book looked more and more appealing each time I walked past. During my walks, I stop and look through the door of each library, hoping to find a hidden gem among the tattered board books, sticky mass market paperbacks, and Windows 97 manuals. I take daily walks through my neighborhood using a route that encompasses three little free libraries. Now that gyms are closed, my workout plan hinges on local little free libraries. ![]()
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