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Bookmobile Love

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 5 Comments
A brief history of American Bookmobiles…
I grew up in a very small town. (Very small, 500 people small) 
Public library? Nope. 
I had stacks of my mom’s Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books. I reread those things until the spines were beyond repair. 
We had plenty of young children’s books. Little Golden, Berenstein Bears, etc. 

But when I hit a certain age this girl needed some BOOKS. Some real, heavy duty, sink your teeth into, life changing BOOKS. 

Enter my maternal grandparents and the Bookmobile! I will never forget the first time they took me. Grandpa brought a box with him and filled it up to the top. A box! Full of books! I thought it was the most fabulous thing I’d ever seen. I was inspired and drunk on the possibilities of all those books, all those words. In a van that came to my little town. 

Thank you Bookmobile. You kick ass.

Lit Bits

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Some funny and cool literary references from Seinfeld per Book Riot

Pansy O’Hara???

Yikes, literary characters that were almost named something else per Mental Floss

If you are wondering what in the hell happened to this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction check out this article per Flavorwire

“Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page. 
Nestled in a sheaf of paper sleeps an infinity beyond the limits of the universe. Just by opening a single page, we may fly into that infinity.” 
― Tanigawa Nagaru