““Chet took a sip of lime cordial from his martini glass and asked, 'What does it take to be a librarian?' I started listing off the requirements on my fingers. 'A corkscrew for the wine, a closet full of cardigans, the optimism to assume that all brown mystery stains found in books are chocolate, a desk calendar featuring cats in hilarious costumes, and, um, did I mention the cardigans ? Sometimes you need to wear a cardigan over top of your other cardigan if the library is really cold or you spilled wine on yourself.””