waukegan

I__ completely library educated. I__e never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn__ want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them. But with the library, it__ like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there__ so much to look at and read. And it__ far more fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don__ have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their teachers, and were graded on__ell, what if you don__ like those books?