I so envy the teen area in my neighborhood library that is marked by a neon light, is separated from the rest of the place by strategically placed bookshelves and offers beanbags for sitting.
Every try the Google Art Project? It’s sort of like Google Map’s street view, only you get to stroll through some of the world’s greatest museums and view their works in zoom mode.
I use to love going to the library, it was a great refuge! My big problem was getting over dues and not being allowed to check out more books, so until my allowance came due, I had to go to the library…pick out my book, read it there for 2 hours, hop on the bus go back home and pray no one checked it out before I got back the next day after school to read 2 more hours. Good news, I figured out how to hide books so others couldn’t find them…better news…I learned to read super fast and am usually able to finish a novel in 8 hours, if I have uninterrupted time in which to do so. 🙂 Books are awesome!
also to continue a conversation held over from yesterdays comments, that I missed chiming in with my 2 cents about….. I agree…let kids be kids. My mom wouldn’t let me eat sugar or candy or nothing fun…so when I got my first real job at 14, I spent my *entire* first paycheck on candy. gobs and gobs and gobs of candy. As a child I might have eaten it all in one sitting, gotten sick, and never ate it again, but noooo as a smart a** teen I rationed it and enjoyed it…and well, I gained a *lot* because no bills+paycheck=boatload of candy each month. ooops.
My biggest problem with the library was that I’d check out a half-dozen books – the limit at our library – and then read them all in a couple days and have to wait for my mom and brothers and sisters to finish their reading (a couple weeks) before mom would take us back to the library. I was a voracious reader. I still am, but I read mostly non-fiction now, so it slows me down some. I’m currently reading “The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century”.
Mary, my mom had the same rule when I was a wee one! Boy was amazing how many books I could pile on in my arms as long as I could see over the stack, I could winz! 🙂
I’d go to the library as a kid, pick out the max allowed… then the day before they were due, scramble to look at them all! (I never READ anything…only looked at pics)… But I still LOVED the library… so many possibilities.
I so envy the teen area in my neighborhood library that is marked by a neon light, is separated from the rest of the place by strategically placed bookshelves and offers beanbags for sitting.
Every try the Google Art Project? It’s sort of like Google Map’s street view, only you get to stroll through some of the world’s greatest museums and view their works in zoom mode.
http://www.googleartproject.com/
I use to love going to the library, it was a great refuge! My big problem was getting over dues and not being allowed to check out more books, so until my allowance came due, I had to go to the library…pick out my book, read it there for 2 hours, hop on the bus go back home and pray no one checked it out before I got back the next day after school to read 2 more hours. Good news, I figured out how to hide books so others couldn’t find them…better news…I learned to read super fast and am usually able to finish a novel in 8 hours, if I have uninterrupted time in which to do so. 🙂 Books are awesome!
also to continue a conversation held over from yesterdays comments, that I missed chiming in with my 2 cents about….. I agree…let kids be kids. My mom wouldn’t let me eat sugar or candy or nothing fun…so when I got my first real job at 14, I spent my *entire* first paycheck on candy. gobs and gobs and gobs of candy. As a child I might have eaten it all in one sitting, gotten sick, and never ate it again, but noooo as a smart a** teen I rationed it and enjoyed it…and well, I gained a *lot* because no bills+paycheck=boatload of candy each month. ooops.
My biggest problem with the library was that I’d check out a half-dozen books – the limit at our library – and then read them all in a couple days and have to wait for my mom and brothers and sisters to finish their reading (a couple weeks) before mom would take us back to the library. I was a voracious reader. I still am, but I read mostly non-fiction now, so it slows me down some. I’m currently reading “The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century”.
Kids these days probably dont know what the dewy decimal system is. Local libraries rawk!
Dvd’s, CD’s, and now computers, it’s how we kept four kids entertained cheaply! Thank God they all love to read!
My mother had to have a rule that her daughters could not check out more books than they could carry themselves.
Mary, my mom had the same rule when I was a wee one! Boy was amazing how many books I could pile on in my arms as long as I could see over the stack, I could winz! 🙂
I’d go to the library as a kid, pick out the max allowed… then the day before they were due, scramble to look at them all! (I never READ anything…only looked at pics)… But I still LOVED the library… so many possibilities.