Living in the Library

By Allison K Williams

The view from my desk

As a kid, I loved wandering the shelves, able to take out as many books as I was years old, a mom rule instituted after a frantic hunt for Book #21, eventually located under the mattress, probably stashed while flashlight-reading under the covers. I learned the habit of finding an author I liked and reading everything they’d written. E. L. Konigsburg, Joan Aiken, Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown solve-it-yourself mysteries, J.D. Fitzgerald’s G...