creeksta wants a library

When I get married and have a house of my own to do with as I please, I am going to have a huge library...When I have kids I want to foster their creativity. Reading helps to do exactly that.

I am not going to say no TV, no computer, and no video games. But they are not going to act like my cousins did when we were younger.

We would have birthday parties down at their house and my cousin's would be glued to the TV, nintendo, and now playstation, not even acknowledging the presence of their family, until they opened the gifts and then it was a quick thank you and then back to the video game.

I don't think that children should be allowed to grow up relying only on TV and video games for entertainment. Books are a very good source of entertainment, plus it lets them use their imaginations. Plus maybe if they spend more of their time reading as kids they won't have such a hard time reading as an adult.

I readily admit that when I was a child, the books always came after TV. If there was something interesting on TV I watched it. I read if there wasn't anything on or I got tired of staring at the TV.

I have now realized that I am the slowest reader on earth. I can't read with out some kind of noise in the background...usually music. I am still trying to read the same book I started reading at the beginning of August. Since school started I haven't actually picked it up more than a couple times. But I should have had it finished well before I actually moved up here to Montana.

I started reading it on the first or second of August. I went to down to Main Street Books, and bought two books. "Interview with a Vampire" and a Johnathan Kellerman book. Started reading Interview with a Vampire as soon as I got home, and I still haven't finished.

Maybe if I wasn't so busy reading all of the assigned reading for my literary appreciation class I would be able to finish it.

This has just turned into me feeling bad about my poor reading skills, so I am going to shut up. But I do want a library like place in my house someday. Maybe even with a fireplace in it. Filled with the classics, not just classics, but a lot of them. It won't be like my mom's collection of books. They will be totally appropriate for children to read.