Finding a “Little Free Library,” A Nerd Girl’s Adventure with Books

This post is the second entry in a series of posts “A Nerd Girl’s Adventure with…” of really neat things I happen to stumble across and just have to share with the world. The first entry in this series was written about an ordinary lipstick, an ordinary lipstick that a fantastic fictional character named Peggy Carter wore. Enjoy this post and stay tuned for yet another in the very near future! One of my earliest memories is of my mother sitting in her rocking chair, holding me close and reading to me until I fell asleep. My mom was, in fact still is, a bookworm and it rubbed off on me very early in life. We’d go to the public library once a week if time permitted with my brother in tow. When the Scholastic Book Fair came to school my mom ALWAYS had a few dollars for me to spend and when I got a little older the two of us would go visit Goodwill stores because we could always find paperback books on the cheap. Reading remains one of my favorite activities because of the sheer delight I get from having the ability to find new worlds to get lost in. When it dawned on me that I could go anywhere within just a couple of books, I was SOLD. Yes, yes. Cue the Reading Rainbow Theme Song, folks. It was a done deal for me. From that point on, my head was always in a book and it was a difficult task to get me out of one. Books have always been apart of great and terrible hilarious memories of my youth: from all the many times my mom threatened me to stop reading at the dinner table to …