I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

by Anne Bogel

But there’s a difference between visiting the library two or three times a week and two or three times a day, between having a library in your neighborhood and a library in your own backyard. The first is wonderful, but the second is a book lover’s dream come true. It was my dream come true.

Can every devoted reader point back to the book that hooked them on the story? I’d like to think so. Not a book they appreciate, or grudgingly respect, but the one that captivated them, the one they didn’t want to put down, the one that made them decide, for themselves, to make reading a part of their life, forever.

Ella enchanted? Harry Potter? I’m sure there were books before Harry Potter. Nancy drew?