tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post3874254324256153480..comments2023-10-22T23:29:48.012+13:00Comments on O Audacious Book: Philip Pullman, Alexandria and the democracy of libraries.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-60536442986130724642011-01-30T21:41:16.214+13:002011-01-30T21:41:16.214+13:00And it is a circle that carries on down through th...And it is a circle that carries on down through the generations. My wife and I are avid readers and library-goers and my two sons have loved books since they had them first read to them as infants. My parents were keen readers and now I pass the torch to my children and they in turn...and so it goes on, the great world of ideas, of the human spirit, of all that is noble and all that is ignoble about the human species. Long live libraries! (We have a beautiful library here in New Brighton which looks out over the ocean - what a setting in which to read.)Ben Hurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367615722744097913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-63361179722762990592011-01-30T13:34:57.256+13:002011-01-30T13:34:57.256+13:00I've got those same Faber editions of Durrell&...I've got those same Faber editions of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Mary. The first volume, Justine, I enjoyed most, and the beginning, with the narrator on his island, was spellbinding.Tim Uppertonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-69110840184040167442011-01-30T11:34:43.533+13:002011-01-30T11:34:43.533+13:00I must have been three when I was enrolled in the ...I must have been three when I was enrolled in the public library - in Miramar, the old one that was the former Miramar town hall. I still remember books like Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, and the Story of Ping.<br />Later I would head to the library after school, borrow three books (the maximum allowed) and have them all read by the next day, when I would go back for more. That's not picture books, either!<br />We didn't have any money to buy books, except at Christmas or birthdays, so the library was absolutely essential. I believe it still is.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236329216260906624noreply@blogger.com