I am a member of the e-book generation, but nothing beats the printed page
When I flip through a book, it’s like I’m cradling the essence of the characters. I want my peers to experience that.
One Saturday last November, I stepped into the place I missed going to the most during quarantine — my local public library. The familiar shelves made me smile behind my mask. The building looked mostly the same as I remembered it more than a year and a half earlier.
As a child, the library was my favorite place. My mom took me every weekend and I loved exploring the new books arranged in alphabetical order and according to their respective genres.
There was so much to find, borrow, and read. When I was around 7, I once borrowed 50 books and didn’t understand why I could not borrow more. I loved the “Geronimo Stilton” series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” from the Chronicles of Narnia series, and “Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library,” just to name a few.