Library Love, and a Reading at Glendale Public Library

Many people are surprised when I tell them that I grew up in a house with only a handful of books. Neither of my parents were readers—my mother has, in recent years become a voracious reader—but luckily back then there were three ways by which I was able to indulge my incessant need for books: the bookmobile that visited my neighborhood, the library bus that took me to my local public library, and my school library.

 

[Two kinds of bookmobiles: One from the Meridian Library in Meridian, Idaho; a