The World's Strongest Librarian (Audiobook)

from Dianekeenoy

I was lucky enough to have won this last year from Goodreads. Thank goodness I finally had a chance to rearrange my book piles and there it was still waiting for me. This is a memoir about a librarian who is 6'7" tall, competes in strongman contests and has Tourette Syndrome. Oh, I almost forgot,...

from TimBazzett

I read a lot of memoirs, but this may be the first one I've read written by a librarian. And THE WORLD'S STRONGEST LIBRARIAN is a pretty interesting read; Hanagarne writes well, which is probably not surprising, given his life-long love affair with books. And his reading tastes seem pretty eclect...

from Brenda63

Beautifully written story of a man who battles Tourette's Syndrome. I came to like Josh very much, his love of books and of life are endearing. He is a warrior fighting an illness that is not widely known and hugely misunderstood. The world can be such a small dark place when one is fighting agai...

from Ellesee

I expected Hanagarne to tell me more about his condition and how he overcame it in a much more detailed manner; perhaps, how weight-lifting allowed him to focus, or somehow change the physiology of his body. This memoir lacked, for me, the deeper considerations about what it like living with Tour...

from zenslave

The author's a Stephen King fan, just like me! That's gotta be pretty rare, so right away I liked this book. Also, this guy's a Mormon or a Muslim or something that I'm not, religiously, and he goes on this mission and has to learn Spanish at one point and so that's cool because I've always wante...