Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand. Haven Kimmel
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My mom was not an avid reader. I’m not even sure she knew how to read. However, she knew the value of libraries and libraries were her happy hunting ground. She had a library card for decades and spent hours browsing the shelves. Every time I visited, she would be there, deep in the stacks, with a book in her hand, lost in time and space.

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