Are you satisfied with your local library? I know. Odd question. Odder still is my having a strong opinion on the selection of books at the local libraries in our new hometown.
I had not been as big a fan of reading as I should have been until my wife’s labor of love to foster the reading of good books with our boys early in their lives inspired me to climb aboard “The Big Red Reading Bus”.
Having access to good books does matter. Reading those good books matters even more.
So if you’re struggling to find your groove when it comes to reading good books, let alone having an opinion on your local library, let Mr. Henry David Thoreau inspire you:
“A truly good book… is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint . . . the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with the least regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.”
Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Scott