Yeah, it's Tuesday, but I'm just happy to be blogging again and not obsessing over a grant application!
This week's discussion: libraries (again)! One of my favorites.
What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any funny/odd memories of the library?
Post your answers in the comments!
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- Alchemist, The
- Alias Grace
- American Gods
- And Then There Were None
- Angela's Ashes
- Anil's Ghost
- Anna Karenina
- Atonement
- Awakening, The
- Bee Season
- Beloved
- Bitch in the House, The
- Blind Assassin, The
- Blindness
- Blood of Flowers, The
- Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Bullfighter Checks her Makeup, The
- Case Histories
- Cat's Eye
- Choices
- Cold Mountain
- Color of Water, The
- Confederacy of Dunces, A
- Conversations with the Fat Girl
- Corelli's Mandolin
- Daughter of Fortune
- Dead Famous
- Death Comes as Epiphany
- Death of an Expert Witness
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Dracula
- Dreams from my Father
- East of Eden
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Evening
- Fall on Your Knees
- Fast Food Nation
- Feast of Love, The
- Feminine Mistake, The
- Fine Balance, A
- For the Sake of Elena
- Ghostwritten
- Girl Named Zippy, A
- Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The
- Girls from Ames, The
- God of Small Things, The
- Green for Danger
- Handmaid's Tale, The
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Heaven Lake
- Hobbit, The
- Hunger Games, The
- I Love Everybody
- Ice Queen, The
- Immortality
- Jane Austen Book Club, The
- Jane Eyre
- Kate Vaiden
- Kindred
- Kitchen God's Wife, The
- Life of Pi
- Little Children
- Lolita
- Lost in Translation
- Lovely Bones, The
- Loving Frank
- Middlesex
- Midwives
- Million Little Pieces, A
- Missing Piece, The
- Namesake, The
- Nickel and Dimed
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Outlander
- Persuasion
- Poisonwood Bible, The
- Portrait of a Lady, The
- Post Birthday World, The
- Power and the Glory, The
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Red Tent, The
- Remembering Babylon
- Requiem for a Dream
- Scanner Darkly, A
- Shantaram
- She Flew the Coop
- Sister of My Heart
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Sparrow, The
- Stand, The
- Suite Francaise
- Taller Women
- Tender is the Night
- Thousand Splendid Suns, A
- Time Traveler's Wife, The
- Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- Virgin of Small Plains, The
- Waiting
- Water for Elephants
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
- White Teeth
- Wickett's Remedy
- Widow for One Year, A
2 comments:
My mom and I went to the library a lot. My earliest memory of the Wayne County Public Library, in Goldsboro where I grew up, is looking for Curious George books. I have lots more memories of that library though.
I remember discovering the Shoes books and the Dark is Rising books. I remember bringing in toilet paper rolls for the hamster. (Why don't public libraries have pets anymore!) I remember trying to read all the juvenile fiction in alphabetical order. I didn't get it all read but did read a lot of things I wouldn't have read otherwise. I remember my mom and I splitting up at the entrance: she would go look for mysteries by Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham and I would go look for Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary.
I don't have any odd memories of the library - just really happy ones.
I also went to the library all the time, almost always to the Landrum branch of the Spartanburg County Library System. Thinking about it, it almost embarasses me how much time I spent there. I could probably diagram what books were on each row. My mom took me when I was little and as I got older, my parents would just drop me off rather than wait on me. I remember reading through the entire Sweet Valley High series, many Nancy Drews, the Lois Duncan books, Michael Crichton, and some Tom Clancy. When I was in high school I checked out whatever music tapes they had and that's how I disovered the Pixies.
My earliest memories are of storyhours and summer reading clubs. I remember little plastic bags you could check out that contained a book and a listen-along record or cassette. I remember a book I loved about a boy who got so dirty that when he took a bath, it was the color of chamomile tea. I've tried for years to figure out what book that was with no success, if anyone has suggestions. The librarian then was Ruth Farrar, who happened to be my preacher's wife, and she was the kindest, gentlest person I've ever known. She made my family banana bread once and every time I make banana bread I think of her.
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