Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,      While I was growing up I loved reading books. The Scholastic Book Fair that annually occurred at my elementary school was an epic part of my life as a kid. I would always get involved with read-a-thons and always had my book reports in on time. My teachers would reward readers with small trinkets like stickers or candy pieces, and the library was always my haunt before and after school. When my elementary school was set to be demolished several years ago, I knew that I had to visit one last time while it was open before the fences went up and the cranes got to work with the wrecking ball.   Upon my arrival, I decided to visit the library that was so special to me one last time. I even saw books with old check-out cards still in them on a book cart outside the library with dates stamped onto the from the mid-eighties. The nostalgia of it all was surreal. How could such an important part of my life b...