return some of the library books, a lot of them probably overdue, it wasn't as if she had been using them, she'd stopped thinking of them as things to read, they were just things to put a teacup or a photo frame on

Oh, I can see Alicia doing this, and laughing and thinking "well, I know what's in there anyway, why should I bother reading it?"

Ouch. *cuddles Alicia, for whom she has an improbable soft spot*