{"id":3278,"date":"2013-06-18T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2013-06-18T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:46:22","slug":"stepping-into-a-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2013\/06\/18\/stepping-into-a-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping into a New World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the first places I go when I get back home is our public library. Even at school, I put things on hold here and often times have my parents pick them up for me if they come earlier than I do. I\u2019m quite aware of the two wonderful libraries in Stevens Point, but there\u2019s just something about your hometown\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a piece of my childhood. My mom used to take my sister and I once a week when we were little. I still have my original library card with my scratched in signature on the back. It\u2019s cracking and taped together, but if I replace it I\u2019d get a new library card number. This would be terrible, because you see, I\u2019ve memorized it.<\/p>\n

When I come home on breaks I always stop in to pick up anything I put on reserve for while I\u2019m home. Then I wander. This is a long process and I like to think I have it down to a science. I hit different areas and sections in a certain order, and pick up new materials that look so intriguing I can\u2019t possibly leave them on the shelf.<\/p>\n

This summer I\u2019ve been digging through two lists of books recommended for people in their college years. I\u2019m loving it! I started with She\u2019s Come Undone<\/em> by Wally Lamb. A girlfriend and I read it aloud to each other on our camping trip to the Porkies. It was a cool way to read a book, aloud like that. It seemed more real, and when you were the listener, you could just sit there and visualize the story playing out in front of you. (Even though I tended to fall asleep, heehee.) The story is of a girl\u2019s coming of age. You follow her from her childhood to her 30s with all her trials and tribulations \u2026 and she has a lot of them. People in psychology would love it.<\/p>\n

Then I read a Steven King novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon<\/em>. I picked out a short one to read in between the Lamb book and another from the list. This one is about a young girl who gets lost in the woods for a week, and a creepy creature follows her around. I didn\u2019t enjoy it as much as other Steven King books, but I read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Then I had two other collections out from the library: Black Tickets<\/em> by Jayne Anne Phillips and The Benchley Roundup<\/em> by Nathaniel Benchley. I read a couple entries from each and really enjoyed both. Benchley is a hilariously satirical writer who wrote in the 20s about all sorts of random things. My favorite was \u2018How to Get Things Done.\u2019 Black Tickets<\/em> is a collection of short stories. They\u2019re very dark, and tap in to a lot of mature topics that were really intense sometimes. Some of them were hard to read since they were so raw and emotional.<\/p>\n

Currently, I\u2019m into my first taste of Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar<\/em> is her only novel ever written, and before I read about the book, I could tell it\u2019s almost a reflection of herself in the protagonist. It\u2019s very similar to Wally Lamb\u2019s novel, but this character has more education, and her thought process resonates more with me. The character is going to end up in a mental institution, but I haven\u2019t gotten that far yet. Another one for those psychology lovers out there!<\/p>\n

I love reading. There\u2019s so much power in a book. You are exposed to a new way of life, a peek at how someone else see\u2019s the world and makes sense of the world around them. Even if it\u2019s fiction. Ahh, I love it. I look forward to cruising through many more books this summer. I hope you\u2019re reading, too! There seems to be a certain kind of \u2018coolness\u2019 that emits from people who read \u2026 be one of those cool people.<\/p>\n

What are you reading?
\n-Courtney<\/p>\n

Courtney Cerniglia<\/a> is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in business administration and Spanish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*Neenah Library Photo Credit: <\/em>http:\/\/twtrland.com\/profile\/neenahlibrary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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