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FROM: "Camille" <[removed]@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 1/8/03, 10:30 AM

I've posted a list of resolutions for readers on our website and I've
added a new one.

Number 16 says, "I'll surrender to whichever books call to me, without
apology, realizing that reading is a summons to an intimate act of communion
with my
hidden soul."

Please feel free to use the list. You don't need permission but I do get
a kick out of knowing that someone finds it useful.

Camille DelVecchio
Penfield Public Library
1985 Baird Road
Penfield, NY 14526
585.340.8720
www.penfieldlibrary.org

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/8/03, 11:01 AM

All those resolutions make me nervous. They turn reading which should be a
joy into a homework assignment, which is what turns so many kids into
reluctant readers. However, if we have lists, I suggest these resolutions:

I will not read drivel no matter how big a best-seller it is or how great
its reviews in heavy literary magazines are.

I will not finish a bad book--my reading time will not be wasted.

I will remember that there is a large, wonderful, and occasionally mad world
out there and remove my nose from my book from time to time to live in it
and enjoy it because books flow from the world and not the other way around.
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: Camille [[removed]@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:20 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject:

I've posted a list of resolutions for readers on our website and I've
added a new one.

Number 16 says, "I'll surrender to whichever books call to me, without
apology, realizing that reading is a summons to an intimate act of communion
with my
hidden soul."

Please feel free to use the list. You don't need permission but I do get
a kick out of knowing that someone finds it useful.

Camille DelVecchio
Penfield Public Library
1985 Baird Road
Penfield, NY 14526
585.340.8720
www.penfieldlibrary.org

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