Tell me what you really think.
Then I guess my house is like a room that's flooded with windows!! Lately I've been thinking that I was giving the library a run for their money. *giggle
Well we are back from vacation. Well I'm back. Kiddos are at Nana's house. I'll have to play a little catch up on your posts.
I got my first library card when I was six. Then I made my mom take me to the library almost every day they were open - and they were open three days a week. I think I went a little overboard, but I WAS always in the Gifted group.
Another thing about not reading: you'll make a crappy Jeopardy contestant.
Check out this audio story at www.thislife.org:
8/5/05 Episode 294 - about Kristy Krueger, a girl who never read or studied, which made her career as an improv comic impossible because she had no cultural frame of reference. It is priceless.
Amen!! I've always had books for my kids. Hubs and I have always been huge readers. Reading just about anything we can get our hands on. When I was a kid, it was a 20 mile drive to the nearest library and a 10 mile drive to the nearest store. The store didn't have books that I remember. Magazines, yes. Books, no.
When my son was small, maybe about 3rd grade, he couldn't find a book in the house that he hadn't already read. I told him I would take him the next day to the library. When I checked on him that night. He was asleep with The BarBQue Bible across his chest. He still hasn't cooked anything...
Get rich and you can read all day long.
I'll teach you how.
http://richardquick.blogspot.com
Actually, the Blue Collar Comedy guys can pop a literary joke or two.
Anyway, a public library card is free. All you have to do is get one.
Thank you. I feel better about spending that $56.00 at my son's school's bookfair yesterday, especiallly since we have about as many books in our house as the bookfair!
i read a book once
This is the reason I'll be doing my book project again this Spring. I'm buying books for two classes of 7th graders in a poor district. Every kid gets to pick his or her own book. Their teacher (a friend and a WONDERFUL teacher) has them keep a journal and gives them writing exercises each day until the book is done. And they get to keep it when the assignment is over. Last year, 60 kids got books. I hope it's more this year!
I was nodding my head with you right up to the point about me going out and doing physical labor.
Sounds like an ad for Damon Runyon.
My father made NOTHING, and our house was still filled with books. How? Two answers: A) the free book rack at the local public library and B) the paperback book exchange.
In cities book exchanges are rarer than they used to be, but in smaller towns, you can generally still find one or two. I LOVE THEM!
Here in Baltimore, once laughably known as "The City that Reads," kids have one of the lowest rates of literacy in the nation. For all that, there is still The Book Thing, a FREE bookstore! I go there as often as I can, and I share the books I find there with students, friends, perfect strangers...you name it! What a gem...
Too right. I'm a voracious reader and it's all thanks to my Mum. In fact she's already instructed Dad to invade the attic and retrieve all the childrens books that were mine umpteen years ago, that she put away for the grandkids, now that there's actually one on the way. Oh and you'll be pleased to know that all those lovingly preserved books are considered totally un-PC and will absolutely be used to introduce my child to the joys of reading.
Sue:
Couldn't possibly care less about anything that first saw the light of radio on THIS AMERICAN LIFE.
They did at least one show last year that was basically a hit piece on Christian conservatives. The one I remember had a commentary by Julia Sweeney, seemingly aping Penn Jillette's pronouncement that nothing will make you an atheist faster than actually reading the Bible.
Ex-kid genius, natural-talent speedreader, used to get lost all-day in public libraries as a kid, now do the same in used bookstores.
From the two small bookcases my folks had when I was small, I now have books overflowing entire library walls and stacked on the floor.
I have found this to be an indicator that a house is inhabited by old-style SF fans.
Um, I think that would make my house a greenhouse then! LOL I have more books than bookcases.
I grew up with a few books, and usually spent any birthday money on more. Ditto with music--my sisters and I were given piano lessons, but aside from the radio, didn't listen to much.
Marriage changed that pretty quick 
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