Nearly 10 years after it was published, an infamous but classic novel is arousing local interest.
E.L. James' erotic best-seller 50 Shades of Grey now has a 30-year waiting list at the Bowen Library.
“We hadn’t had much interest in that book lately, but since the pandemic started, people kept placing it on hold online, so much that we couldn’t keep up,” says library assistant Lisa Fremont. “By the time we managed to turn off the automatic waiting-list function, the list had grown to 30 years––approximately 520 islanders.”
“It’s great that people want to use the library but maybe this is one book they can just buy,” says Fremont.
“Maybe it’s like the toilet paper,” muses her friend Jeff.
“We did figure out that at least one person wasn’t wearing his glasses and was in fact trying to borrow The Picture of Dorian Gray,” says Fremont. “He was actually quite thrilled when he thought there were that many Oscar Wilde fans on Bowen.”
