Booksss
So I was practicing using the university's online library catalog, and I discovered that, as well as all the super important groundbreaking medical journals and scientific textbooks, the King's College library also happens to keep a copy of James and the Giant Peach! :D So I had to go and find it! Unfortunately they don't have Matilda or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. :( And there's a copy of The Magician's Nephew, but no Lion Witch Wardrobe. I guess they keep these books for English Literature students.
So I left the library with the copy of James and the Giant Peach. It's really old and all the pages are brown. Ya know how they stamp the book with the date you need to return it by? Well the first date stamped is May 31 1989! The last time it was borrowed before me was March 2005. I just think it's so interesting because most of the textbooks are recent editions and a textbook printed in 2004 is considered old, yet this book has been in the library since I was 7 years old or maybe even longer!
I also borrowed Pride and Prejudice :) and . . .
. . . another really old book with brown pages that was last borrowed in 2001 and first borrowed in February 1987 (before I turned 5!) . . . a really lovely book: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe. That's right, lovely young Anne Frank wrote several stories while she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam. Her stories are so wonderful and creative. It makes me think what a wonderful writer the world missed out on by Anne being sent to her death at such a young age. She could have give the world so much if she'd been allowed to live! It's so sad. :( Reading her lovely imaginative stories makes me cry. :(
So I left the library with the copy of James and the Giant Peach. It's really old and all the pages are brown. Ya know how they stamp the book with the date you need to return it by? Well the first date stamped is May 31 1989! The last time it was borrowed before me was March 2005. I just think it's so interesting because most of the textbooks are recent editions and a textbook printed in 2004 is considered old, yet this book has been in the library since I was 7 years old or maybe even longer!
I also borrowed Pride and Prejudice :) and . . .
. . . another really old book with brown pages that was last borrowed in 2001 and first borrowed in February 1987 (before I turned 5!) . . . a really lovely book: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe. That's right, lovely young Anne Frank wrote several stories while she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam. Her stories are so wonderful and creative. It makes me think what a wonderful writer the world missed out on by Anne being sent to her death at such a young age. She could have give the world so much if she'd been allowed to live! It's so sad. :( Reading her lovely imaginative stories makes me cry. :(