Much reamins the same but much has changed too. Love of reading is still there, passion for couponing is pretty much a thing of past. Don't get me wrong, if I have a coupon I will use it but I won't fret or wring my hands if I am in need of something for which I have no coupon. I have moved on to from 'Saving money at all times and all at all costs' to 'Value my time and update my priorities' and I like inhibitating this state of mind.

Three years and two days ago to this very date, I started this blog and titled it 'My Reading Journal'. I am happy to report that though these last three years witness numerous changes in the way I live my life- one thing that has remained constant is my love of books and my devotion to the ritual of reading. Between the years 2007-2010, my wallet carried library cards from four different Public libraries.One from the county in which I lived from 2007 to early 2010, one from the county in which...

"True piety does not consist in turning your faces towards the east or the west -- but truly pious is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, and the prophets; and spends his substance -- however much he himself may cherish -- it -- upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and for the freeing of human beings from bondage; and is constant in prayer, and renders the purifying dues; and [truly pious are] they who...

Dear dames of Dumfries library and the lone gentleman too,

As I am writing this note of gratitude from hundreds of miles away, I am remembering all of you and the excellent experience you provide, with much fondness.

One often hears about the charms of 'small town experience' the pleasure of being greeted by one's name, a place where a patron's preferences are remembered and ones's selections are appraised with good cheer. I found all these life's small pleasures...

In our desperation to appear sophisticated, we may confuse having good taste (whatever that means) with being a good person. If you've ever judged a fellow subway rider by the cover of his paperback, or been reluctant to share your iPod for fear that your playlist will make you look like a loser, consider yourself guilty.
(Newsweek 10/12/09 Page 54, Jennie Yabroff's article about Nick Hornby)