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2/20/2014 Books, the library and Wings to Fly

I had a professional development for two hours in the library yesterday morning,and I was kind of distracted by all the books on the shelf.  Remembering my first impression of a library so many years ago and thinking about how my love of books has grown over the years, I decided to record some thoughts about it all. Austin has an amazing library system, and you can get books electronically delivered to your reading device; or you can have books delivered to your nearest location from any other location in the city. With millions of different books available, I really have just had a revival of going to the library in the last couple of years.  It's thrilling. I read The Book Thief  recently.  One of the attractions for me to the book and then the movie was this young girl's desire, this almost unquenchable thirst, for books.  As her story played out in Nazi Germany, I could remember my own feelings sometimes that books were forbidden to me. I love lookin...