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Have you heard about the woman who kept a library book for 63 years? I read this bizarre story, thanks to email from Candace, a friend who saw it in The New York Times. The recent article told of 74-year-old Betty Diamond who had kept an overdue library book in her possession — carrying it with her wherever she moved — for more than six decades. I rank this story up there with notes in a bottle that bob across the world’s oceans for decades and Christmas cards from World War II that have just been delivered by the postal service. Such stories are irresistible.

Book returned to New York library was 63 years overdue By (0) Wisconsin resident Betty Diamond mailed a book back to the Queens Public Library in New York 63 years after she checked it out. File photo by Valkr/Shutterstock March 17 (UPI) -- A woman who checked a book out from a New York library in 1957 mailed the overdue volume back to the facility with a $500 donation. Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger, a collection of Paul Bunyan stories by Glen Rounds, from a Queens Public Library branch in 1957. Advertisement Diamond said the book ended up lost among her own books, and she came across it over...