Beatrice at Margaret Mini Library

Our mission is to encourage our visitors to pick a book and read, then get another one, and another one. Hopefully, it will became a life long habit. We are especially fond of our young visitors they are by far the most desired readers. Lets keep the books free and available to all!

I like to think that my love for books rooted in my childhood. We use to go to our small stuffed to the ceiling library filled with old books at least once a week to check out new books. Our library was quite small in comparison to a modern library that we are familiar with. But, it’s quite welcoming, with lots of light, a great librarian that always had great ideas for books. She’s a single middle age woman with very kind smile. Always listing carefully to you, waiting for you to finish, and only then she’s speak back. In fact, I’d a great respect for her and the books she’d recommended. Later on I became a volunteer in our small library back at home. My apatite for science fiction books was unstoppable I read as many books I could lay my hands on. Sometime it got so intense that she’d told me to slow down from seven books per week to five, so I could have time for other things in life. Moving forward, after middle school life got more complicated and books fail behind, our librarian retired and our beloved library merged with the adults. I spent less time reading, and more time trying to understand life and my surrounding – without too much luck. Books became my source for stability and some relief to a difficult adolescent life that most of us experienced during growing up.

Moving forward to the present, I’m no longer read books the way I use to,  mostly I read the newspaper, online publication, Kindle books and occasional book that I dig from my collection. Life became so busy that I can’t find the time to pick a book and read it without interruptions. I do miss that form of relaxation and pure joy of reading. In a way I wish I could go back to the days of reading books without the guilt that’s now associated with it. My point is this; if you can find some time to spare, or you have a young child sit with them and read a book together. Both of you will be rewarded with the experience. Perhaps the child will pick up that life long habit of reading and enjoying a good book. I do hope that reading books will not disappear into the dust bin of history, just to be replaced by digital media that’s taking over our library space quite rapidly. Frankly, I don’t see a bright future to the print media, but that just my opinion.

Please keep reading books – it’s rewarding, entertaining and can be lots of fun!

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