I ♥ Books!

Let me be honest about something...in case you didn't already know, I'm a bit of a nerd. I mean, come on, I'm a librarian...it's in my DNA. I love gadgets and tech stuff and learning new things. I can't wait to get an iPad of my own....oh what fun I will have! I love working in the broadcast studio at school and being able to produce a news show each day with minimal problems. You get the drift....I'm a dork. 

But...at the end of the day, I didn't get my EdS in Instructional Technology and become a media specialist for the technology. Surprised? Don't be. I'm a book lover...a reader...down to the very core of my being. I haven't always been this way. There is a difference between calling someone a reader because they can read and someone being a reader because they love it. I've been able to read since I was 5 or 6 years old I guess, but I didn't really become a reader until I was in college. I think there is always that 1 book that just turns people into readers. It might be the first book they actually read, the book they stayed up reading all night, the book they read with the box of tissues beside them. It's different for everyone. My "book" is A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks. A college friend had loaned it to me during the summer of 1998 while I was in summer school. I had been reading it slowly and enjoying it, but then she said she needed it back so she could take it home with her for the weekend. I really wanted to finish the book. I am pretty sure it was a Thursday afternoon when she told me she needed it back so I decided to spend the afternoon and evening reading.  Well, the afternoon and evening turned into an all night reading fest. When I finished, with a glob of used Kleenex next to me, I took my puffy, red eyed self to her room (it was most likely some ridiculous hour of the morning....but like I said, it was summer school...there was not a whole lot of studying going on on a Thursday night...more likely, a lot of partying) and returned it to her. That's when I became a reader. A real reader. Someone who loves books.

So, I write all of that to preface this video. Lane Smith, a children's book author, has a new book out called It's A Book. Like I said earlier, I'm a nerd...a dork....a dweeb...and I love the digital age. We Google and Facebook (yes, they're verbs in my book), we blog, and we tweet. I love these things just as much as the next person, but even more so, I love books. In this ever-changing digital age, we can't lose our love of books. I for one, will be fighting to the death for them.

Enjoy!