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A Trip to Canada

Hello Readers,

Here is a quick post to tell you that I just got back from a trip to Canada, and ‘Wow’, what a great country! The people are friendly, the scenery is beautiful, and they have some great beer.

It has become a bit of a thing for me now to visit libraries wherever I go and grab some photos. So here are a few pictures of the Grande Biblioteque in Montreal and the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver that I took on my phone:

This is outside the Grande Biblioteque, Montreal
This is inside the Grande Biblioteque, Montreal.
Inside the Grande Biblioteque, Montreal.

The Grande Biblioteque is massive, and I love that they have a big collection of graphic novels.

This is outside the Vancouver Public Library (VPL).
Inside the VPL

The VPL has a staggering 9 floors, it is huge. They even have a few sound-proof music studios in the library with an electronic drum kit, recording equipment, and related software.

I also have some photos of a modern library in a church, and an old colonial English library in a former prison found in Quebec. But, these are on my camera and I need to transfer them and convert them to JPEG files, so I will save those for another time.

Happy Reading!

Allan Walsh writes Fantasy and Horror. If you’re looking for something new to read in these genres, why not check out his books here.

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A Simple Post on Libraries

Hello Readers,

I haven’t done a post that isn’t a book review for some time now, so I thought I would put one together for you. I had a little think about what I could do and came up with this idea, a post on some of the awesome libraries I have visited locally and across the world. So, here are a few of the photos I have taken while on my travels (and one photo I didn’t take).

This is the forest of Wisdom in South Korea:

This library is located in an area called Paju Book City and is close to the border of North Korea. This place is full of publishers and book related businesses. The library even has rooms you can book and stay at.

And a printing press museum:

This next one is Oodi Library in Helsinki. I didn’t have a decent photo of this library, so I grabbed this one by Seppo Palander, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    This is the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia:

    The State library of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia:

    This one is Kurilpa Library in West End, Queensland Australia (My local library):

    And to finish up, here are a couple of the communal libraries around my area:

    Happy Reading!