My girls would take the entire library home if it were allowed. 🤣 They were getting 40 each until I started limiting them myself. Now they’re 8 and 9 reading entire novels in a weekend (while still doing other activities)!
I love books. I used to be Chief Security Officer of a multinational corporation based in Finland. Have drank whiskey with Bruce Schneier multiple times in ISF - Information Security Forum - Council meetings in multiple countries. Retired six years ago
Me too. I dreamed of having a library in my home, and now i do. Hundreds of books on my very own shelves. Some of them books I wrote. Childhood dreams do come true
Me too… when I was in high school I read all the novels written by Latinos writers… when I went to college the professor couldn’t find me another novel because the one that he requested I. The class I already read it..
Thay was me until I went into foster care and was no longer allowed to read. I used to devour books. Spent lunch in the school library. It was my whole world.
I took books out from the city library, the school library and the mobile library (we lived in the countryside) because I, too, was one of 'those kids who read for fun'. Think we were limited to 3 books at a time, though, back in the 1950s/60s.
I was that kid. When I got into trouble, I got grounded from books. I also got the pat down at bedtime, just in case I was trying to sneak a book into my room.
Omg that was me too lol! One of my only punishments as a child after I was too old for a spank was taking away my books. It was very effective. I didn’t get in trouble much lol!
I just got hip to the Libby which lets you access library collection via Kindle. It’s made it slightly easily to read on the phone (I still love physical books more💗)
Me too. There was no library in my neighborhood. There was only one Black library at the time, and it was across town. However,there was a bookmobile that came around every Friday.
My kids and husband all played hockey. My daughter asked me what I did growing up and all I could think of was reading and sitting around with the kids in my neighborhood. Sounds like a perfect childhood to me.
and me ! in the school hols I used to get the bus to our nearest library & spend the day there browsing & reading. At lunch I'd pop out to Sayers for a sausage roll then back to the books . My Liverpool life in the late 60s/70s.
And me! Oh and the feeling when I was granted access to the adult section of the library (when little we only had a child section card). It was like a whole new treasure chest opened up ❤️
The ladies at my childhood library clearly never got the memo about the “child section” card — they let me walk out with “The Exorcist” in sixth grade and I haven’t looked back since
I was one of those library kids, too. My longest job in high school was as a page at our local library. I would either spend most of my shift reading in one of the chairs at the end of the stacks, or in the basement reading every back issue of old music, film, or sports magazines. I loved that job!
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