My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.
As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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