Louisa May Alcott wrote in one of her lesser-known novels, “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” About a century later, this same condition hit me. As a kid I had to be hauled out of my local library as close to closing time as I could push it. My parents struggled for years to keep me in enough books — purchased or borrowed — to satisfy my little word-addled brain. As I grew up, I wrote, and read, constantly, editing my high school newspaper for three years, and eventually studying journalism in college.
Obsessed: A Love For Libraries and Libby
Louisa May Alcott wrote in one of her lesser-known novels, “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” About a century later, this same condition hit me. As a kid I had to be hauled out of my local library as close to closing time as I could push it. My parents struggled for years to keep me in enough books — purchased or borrowed — to satisfy my little word-addled brain. As I grew up, I wrote, and read, constantly, editing my high school newspaper for three years, and eventually studying journalism in college.