See my icon by sageness?

[roxy]

I love this icon. It makes me feel warm and happy. I remember when I was a little Roxy, coming home from the library with a ton of books and feeling rich! When we could go to a bookstore, it was like hitting the lottery, and whenever I could buy more than one book, I felt like a rich person.

I remember the library on the base we lived, how it smelled, and how dark it was all the time--the lights were always on, winter and summer. I loved that. The librarian, poor thing, put her foot in it more than once dealing with me. One time, she wouldn't let me check out the books I'd chosen because she said they were above my age. I'm sure she thought she was doing a good thing and my folks would be glad for it. heh. My mother had a fit when I told her. She made my dad drive her to the library with me in tow, and told the woman she had a nerve deciding what was right for her kid. My mom never checked to see what we were reading. (the whole stack was SF, by the way). Another time, the poor librarian tried to tell me I couldn't check out as many books as I'd chosen because I'd never read them all in a week. I think I had ten. Mom didn't like that either. Back to the library we went and little Miss Thing had no limit to the books she could check out.

You see why I'm like this? Spoiled rotten.

You'd think the poor woman would hate me after my mom telling her off, but no, she was nice to me, and when we moved, told me that she'd miss me.

We moved a bit being in the service, and the one thing you could count on was the library. There were always friends there, old friends and new ones. Good times, those, good times.

Comments

Libraries

[smilingirlblue.livejournal.com]

I too had problems with checking out books "too old" for me. When the librarian, Miss Pearl Tanner, wouldn't let me check out Edgar Rice Burroughs Princess of Mars (not to mention the scandalous Tarzan), my father had a talkl with Miss T. My folk made sure we had plenty of food and books. I so loved the Weekly Reader and Scholastic Book Club. Consequently, I'm now fat and happy with overflowing bookshelves. Have you tried out www.Shelfari.com? I LOVE it. It's the best virtual library with thousands of book addicts of various flavors. Check it out!

HUGS!!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

lol! Did your books have the ape dictionary in the back? I wanted to be fluent in ape. Thank goodness that experience cured me of that--there-by saving the world(and me) from Roxy trying to speak Klingon. *G* And I was just talking about Scholastic Book Club to my kid! We all loved the book fair!

And thanks for the shelfari link---it looks interesting!

Re: HUGS!!

[smilingirlblue.livejournal.com]

Roxy, I yope you will enjoy Shelfari. I love seeing what other people are reading, what books I've read that I've forgotten about. My shelf is (surprise!), SmilingirlBlue. Be sure to "friend" me. I just KNOW (heh heh) you have some books I'm going to want to read.