Tag: libraries

Posted in Life

Proud mom

Posted on by Tarryn Atkinson

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that both my boys love to read.

My 11yo is a voracious reader. He is currently going through a stage of reading series. He has recently finished The Bodyguard series by Chris Bradford.

He has just started a new series called Department 19 by Will Hill and collected the second and third books of the series from his school library yesterday.

Book 2 of the Department 19 series

Yes, it is about vampires. He enjoys a wide range of genres which is awesome!

Book 2 and book 3 are each over 700 pages long. 700 pages! And standard print size. There are whole adults that have never read a 700 page book. Let me remind you, he is 11yo.

I teased him and said he better not fall asleep reading, this book could break his nose 😂

A whole door stop!

I am so pleased. Proud mom for sure! I am trying to persuade him to do some reviews on this new series so stay tuned.

Posted in My bookish personality

I tried, I swear I tried

Posted on by Tarryn Atkinson

Instead of a misspent youth, I worked in a local municipal library throughout my undergrad degree. Yes, I was that girl. Locum for anyone on leave, off sick etc.

Dewey decimal system forever 💪 and let’s not even mention the extra books allowed on my library card as a staff member! Bonus!!

When the trend of organising bookshelves by colour as opposed to alphabetically took hold of everyone, I could simply not do it.

It went against all my literary standards and the thought hurt my heart. But one day, I did it. I did the colour thing and it looked beautiful, for about an hour …

Then it began bugging me. My Dean Koontz books were all over the place and let’s not even talk about the Patricia Cornwells. I know! Shocking!

It lasted less than a week. Now we are back to alphabetical, by author’s surname, as it should be. Sanity has prevailed and my little librarian heart is at peace once more.