Libraries of the Little, Free, and New Orleans Variety

Now I don’t usually do this, but seeing as how it’s Christmas . . .

What’s that? It’s not Christmas? It’s almost half a year away from Christmas? Well, shoot. Guess we’ll have to hope that folks are in a giving mood above and beyond the winter holiday season.

So the other day I got an email from a Junior in high school. Turns out, she’s in New Orleans and is a big time reader. She told me, “In the past three and a half years, I have read 119 full-length novels in addition to shorts stories, c...