![]() ![]() I live now in a small condominium whose four rooms are piled high with books that have spilled off the bookcases that line all the available wall space, and which themselves are already double-shelved with books. They introduced you to people you hadn’t met, and helped you to sample ways of being that would never have occurred to you.” As a child, I lived those words, and continue to do so as an adult reader. Recently a friend reminded me of what Francis Spufford says in The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading: “The books you read as a child brought you signs you hadn’t seen yourself, scents you hadn’t smelled, sounds you hadn’t heard. I was enthralled with the sheer glory of the written word when I read (or had read to me), for example, Robert McCloskey’s One Morning in Maine and A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson as a child, and I’ve never looked back. I discovered at a young age that books-paradoxically-allowed me both to find and to escape myself. ![]() If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, “Hi, I’m Nancy P., and I’m a readaholic.” As I explained in the introduction to Book Lust, my addiction to reading (and my career as a librarian) grew out of a childhood that was rescued from despair by books, libraries, and librarians. ![]() Introduction to Nancy Pearl's 'More Book Lust' Librarian Nancy Pearl has followed up her popular book Book Lust with another guide to the reading life: More Book Lust. Books to Keep Kids Reading Through Summer ![]()
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