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The Power of the Local Library

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I have always loved reading from a young age. Having been grounded half of my childhood ‚ the only thing I could do is read. I loved books because it took me into someone else’s world.  I got to forget for a couple hours of being grounded  while my friends got to play. Suddenly there was a great power of emotions I had never experienced before.The novel was a magnet drawing me in. This began the love of ; hence‚ buying books and receiving books for gifts.

However‚ when I became an adult‚ purchasing books became a pricey endeavor. I no longer was a kid living at home with their parents and could spend whatever money  made from babysitting. There where bills to pay and responsibilities to take care of. It took me till the age of 29 to start using the local public library. My Mother-in-law would always explain about the great books she would find to read at the local library. She said they had movies that one could check out. Not just the old VHS movie from the 1980’s either. There are new DVDs that just came out a couple months ago. That got my thinking about all the money spent on Amazon renting movies and shows. My husband and I do not have cable and would spend but loads of money on renting DVDs from red box and then forget to take them back. Then‚ we would get late charge fees. Sometimes what had been spent in a month added up to 50 dollars.

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One weekend we both decided to go  get a library card and check out what was so attractive about the place. We lived in Scottsdale at the time and the one library we went to looked like it came  out of a fancy architect magazine. Plus‚ I would always see people taking their family and work pictures there. The words that came to  mind as I looked around the beautifully‚ kept library where‚ “why did I wait so long to go to the library?” They had every DVD movie one could imagine. The new films had a three day rent limit‚ which is longer than Red box or Amazon. Guess what? It is free dollars! Down one of the aisles was a magazine rack filled with all the latest magazines and newspapers. I remember spending so much money on magazines because I wanted the latest-lifestyle magazine. My husband would come over to my survival apartment when I was single and laugh at all the stacks of magazines that had accumulated. There are aisles upon aisles of books for whatever flavor you are feeling. The one thing I love is in the front they have a couple aisles made of the newest and most popular books and DVDs to check out. Plus‚ one can ask a librarian to look up a particular book or use computers to research if a book is available.

There are a long list of wonderful words I could say about the mystic place. However‚ that could take all day. I still love the touch and smell of books and will still buy to collect every once in a while. I just won’t break the bank. My love for books has grown stronger than … because the library has opened up so many different reading options. The library is magical and has put a spell on me. I am sold for life.

Do you love your local library? Do you think it is magical?

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