![]() ![]() It still thrills me to explore the shelves. I am more dependent on it than ever because my tight budget does not permit me to buy many books. Nowadays, I mainly go to the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library. While raising our young family in Greece, it was sometimes difficult to find enough English language books to fuel the fires of my reading addiction, as I recount in my essay called “ Treasure Hunt: Searching for Books in Thessaloniki,” although we had access to some of the best libraries in the city. Later, in my teen years, after I had come to the realization that I was a writer, I discovered the science fiction shelves at the Henry Branch and in particular the Nebula Awards volumes. ![]() I would usually come home with a significant heap of literary treasures. When our family lived on lower Capital Hill in Seattle, my mother would drive me and my siblings to the Henry Branch Library on top of Capital Hill so we could explore the shelves and check out books. Libraries have been some of my favorite places on Earth ever since I was a child. ![]()
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