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#52 - get a library card

I've been so busy lately that I haven't been keeping up with my blog(s), but I figured this one was easy enough!  Two weeks ago, I found out that the Borders store where I work would be closing (I found another job, for those of you who don't read my other blog) and I was pretty bummed about losing my book-borrowing privileges.  Borders employees get to borrow brand-new books for two weeks!  Crazy, right?  I had pretty much plowed through half the independent reader section and wasn't about to stop just because some bookstore was going out of business, so I finally hauled my laziness down to the library. 

I don't know what I was expecting when I went, but it certainly wasn't a stone building with arches and courtyards and fountains and brass lettering over carved wooden doors.  The main library here is the nicest I've ever seen.  Possibly the nicest public library in America.  I really should've taken pictures, but the children's section is filled with enormous stuffed animals, plushy chairs, colorful carpets, and AWESOME THINGS.  Like books.

I would have you all know that today I checked out the last four books in A Series of Unfortunate Events.  Instead of writing my term paper, I read two of them.



If you don't have one already, I dare you to get a library card.  And, after you get one, go sit outside in the sun and read a few books. 

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  1. Awaiting AdventuresMarch 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM

    I will once there is Sun and a place to sit that isn't covered with snow!!! Now I'm flying through Jane Eyre again since the movie is to come out soon!

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