by Donna Zapf

CataRomance Guest Blog: My Love for Libraries by Barbara White Daille

September 21, 2010 in Blog by Donna Zapf

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Growing up, I would often see my mom sitting at the kitchen table or in her recliner in the living room with a book propped open in front of her.  She made a great role model for someone who would become an avid reader and writer and, long years later, an author with her very own books in print.

Thanks to my mom, my love affair with libraries began when I was five years old.  She took me to the local branch to get my first library card.  All I needed was to be able to print my name.  No problem at all with that.  The difficulty came in giving the completed application to the librarian, because I was too short to reach across her desk!

The neighborhood branch was a fairly small place, just one room packed floor-to-ceiling with books, and with only a half-dozen shelves in the children’s section.  By third grade, I’d probably read every one of those titles twenty times over.  Even though I expanded my borrowing to the school library, I soon ran out of reading material.  It wasn’t long before I’d moved on to Young Adult novels and devoured those, too.

My love for books led me to volunteer both at my elementary and high schools.  What job could be better than that?  Well, to my surprise, not long after graduating from college and getting married, I found out there could be something better:  spending my days around books and getting paid for it.  J

For several years, I worked as a clerk in the town library.  Of all the jobs I’ve held over the years, there’s no doubt that was one of the best—except for being a writer, of course.

I’m sure you have a story of how you became interested in reading, too.  I would love to hear it, so please share!

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From the time she was a toddler, Barbara White Daille found herself fascinated by those things her mom called “books.”  Once she learned the words between the covers held the magic of storytelling, she wanted to see her words in print so she could weave that spell for others.

Barbara hopes you will enjoy reading her stories and will find your own storytelling magic in them!

Barbara’s upcoming release from Harlequin American Romance, FAMILY MATTERS, will hit bookstore shelves on October 8th.

You can find Barbara online at her web site:  www.barbarawhitedaille.com  You can also reach her via Facebook and Twitter:  www.facebook.com/barbarawhitedaille and twitter.com/BarbaraWDaille

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