A Little of This, and a Little of That

My whole life, I have been a HUGE reader.  There is a scene in “Anne of Green Gables” (the movie) where Anne’s teacher, Miss Stacey catches her reading during geometry class, and her book gets confiscated. That was me, I had many books taken during class, though I always got them back at the end of the day.  (As a teacher how do you tell a kid she can’t read?)

I read anything and everything I could get my hands on, and my favorite book store was the “Book Nook” in Central Lake, Michigan.  We had a summer home there and when I was growing up I spent enormous amounts of time there talking to the guy who owned the store, and making piles of books I wanted to buy.  It was a used book store, and I loved the smells of the old books, and the towering shelves filled with stories waiting to be read.  Many mornings friends would call the cottage looking for me, and my mom would tell them I was in town at the book store.  When I got finished at the “Book Nook” I would spend the rest of the day at the end of the dock reading whatever treasures I’d purchased.

Well, the “Book Nook” has been gone for several years now.  I am living in Texas, and I only get back to the cottage once a year to read at the end of the dock.  Which meant that in the past several years my reading declined to the point where I was hardly reading at all.  About a year and a half ago, my friend ‘K’ pushed me back into the reading arena.  She is a huge reader, and was tired of the fact I wasn’t keeping up with her like I used to.

Well it worked, and for the past year and a half, I have been reading like a fiend, catching up for lost time, and I can’t believe I went that long not reading.  I am once again burying my nose in a book every night, who needs T.V. anyway, after dinner until bed time.  Since my books were starting to accumulate all over the house, my husband had this great idea to build me a “Book Nook” in the corner of the living room.  With a bunch of book shelves, and my favorite chair.  I’m in heaven.  It’s perfect, and was the greatest idea ever. However, my books are quickly out growing my shelves, so something will need to be done.  I haven’t decided quite what yet.  I’ll keep you posted.