National Library Week
Volcano National Park - Ferns Coming Back It's National Library Week and here is a short list of favorite books that I borrowed from the hometown library in Connecticut. A bit of framing may be in order before revealing my list. This list is reflective of what I was likely reading between the ages of 8 and 18 (at which point I left for college and the list and the access to books totally changed (different blog post that is for sure). I think I graduated from the children's to the adult library around age 10 in terms of borrowing (and I think my parents may have had to say that was OK before I could do so). I was a reader and I grew up in a time when we had ever widening geographic circles of "where we could go independent of parents." At some point, I had permission to cross Fern Street, Trout Book, and Farmington Avenue to get to that Library in West Hartford Center on my bike. It was mecca and I was in heaven (freely mixing a couple of metaphors). I...