I’m Book-Poor, But I’m Happy
I have a lot of books. I’ve been reading since I was four, and collecting — no, amassing is more accurate — books since I was old enough to have pocket money. Last estimate was about 24,000 books in my house. Most of them were boxed up in the attic until recently, because my house […]
Indoctrinating Children
I’m a sneaky mom. My kids like to listen to books on CD while drifting off to sleep. Most nights, I let them; although some nights I insist on music. After we’d listened to all six Harry Potter books for the umpteenth time, and gone twice through our incomplete collection of Redwall books (there are […]