“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves-you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”-Ray Bradbury
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea.
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A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 
Yea, the autodidactic empiricist was a hype-lyricist.
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Ha.
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Amen.
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A thousand times over!
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As a wee girl, I read tons of books in our school library – except for the Hardy Boys, eww – and was pretty stoked about all these books you could read for FREE. Our grandmother also took us to the library when we went to visit her in the summer; she let us take out the maximum number and didn’t complain when she lugged the books back home for us. Ahhh, such wonderful library memories…
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That is wonderful! Your grandmother was very generous. I think that being raised a reader is one of the greatest gifts a child can ever receive. Your library history is much like mine-I happily checked out as many books from the school library as possible. I also have lovely memories of walking to the local public library branch with my mom, often several times a week. She let me check out whatever I wanted. I was also lucky enough to have two teenage aunts, so I received a lot of hand-me-down books AND, because they still had young children, my grandparents had several sets of encyclopedias and shelves of reference books. Bliss! My reading memories are some of my favourites from my childhood.
PS-I was given my uncle’s Hardy Boys books, so I am sure I read them all. But I would have been very young-maybe six.
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