Hello & Welcome!
Hello! and welcome to my blog!! As you may have guessed, I love books and all things about them. I've been a bibliophile forever - from my mother telling me stories as a toddler, learning to read in 1st grade till now in retirement - treasuring, collecting, and then sometimes selling them to find a new reader who can enjoy or learn from them. I didn't experience my first library until I was 11 years old. I had thought a library was this huge collection my 2nd grade teacher had at the back of the classroom. The 3ft by 4ft bookcase with its four shelves was crammed with books, and the highlight of my week was to pick out a book to take home for extra reading during the weekend. I didn't think anyone had more books than that!
Then we moved to a little town (2000 residents) in Southern California in 1956. The library was about a mile from my Grandmother's house and one summer afternoon, my mom let me go and see it. Climbing the steps of that Carnegie building, I wondered which room had the library and who could I ask? I pulled open the glass door and walked in. I froze just inside the entrance. There before me were bookshelves crammed with books from floor to roof. Actually they were only about 8 feet tall in that 14 ft ceiling room, but it seemed up to the sky to me...and that was the beginning of my love of books and libraries.
In this blog, I'd like to share my love of books and recommend some I have found to be keepers, some of interest, and some which may be of value, whether for your collection, information, education or leisure time, and that I can no longer keep in my crammed shelves. I'd like to hear from you also once you've read my reviews of any similar works to those I post. I'll know then what to look for at book sales, my library, even yard sales. I pick up books wherever I can find them.
