My mom shares how her older brother's book obsession (he had 72 overdue books one time!) influenced her and encouraged her own love of reading!

I remember she knew every book, she seemed to know everything I ever had a question about. When I needed help with a class project on Emily Dickinson or Nigeria or the Soviet Union or Helen Keller, she seemed endlessly available, open, and wholly focused on me and what I needed, as if there weren’t dirty dishes, ungraded papers, or unfolded laundry waiting for her.

She knew about the lives of authors, she quoted classic poems seamlessly, she helped me uncover deep meanings behind passages in novels I barely understood on the surface.

When I think of books, I think of Mom. When I think of Mom, I think of books. #ilovemom

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