Thanks, Polly, for sharing! That was a cool shout out to our illustrious team, and, of course, I got sidetracked by reading the other posts there. Since I had just read the story about "Palin the Library Patron" this morning, I was interested to read the comments on a library-focused blog.
I had read about this and was fascinated. Often volumes of insight can be garnered from an honest and open 30-minute conversation. Is this idea not akin to the This American Life "Talk to an Iraqi" episode, but in a different context?
I would love, love, love to see this get started at Nashville Public or Rutherford County. Since I seem to collect labels and stereotypes like they are going out of style and would like more people understand the communities to which I belong, I would welcome the opportunity to "be a book". Besides, in this fabulous political era we are living, it would be nice to have a conversation with someone without getting in a huge argument. You could ask questions and learn something different from your point of view.