As I take the Yelp 100 Challenge, I am challenging myself to read one book a week. This is a reasonable challenge. I am a book lover. In 1985, when I read Ray Coleman's "Lennon", it planted the seed of a lifelong reading habit. To this day, I am usually in the company of a book. My genre is the biography-preferably musicians, actors, and winners.
Books are nutricion for the mind and food for the soul. Books are knowledge. Knowledge is power! A good book is entertaining and enlightening. A good book lifts my mind to an elevated place where I feel like the Baron of Cloud 9.
Las Vegas is a suitable metropolitan area for book lovers. There are more Las Vegas Library District branches scattered throughout the area than there are Station Casinos. The southernmost branch is Enterprise Library. It is a branch that is convenient to my Henderson apartment.
Enterprise Library is small. It ain't a New York Public Library, Seattle Public Library, or Sahara West Library. When you walk in, there is a hall to the right. That hall connects to a conference room. There are some interesting Las Vegas pictures. The majority of the action is straight. There are two stations for information. The books are toward the back of the room. To the left are couches, reference books, and magazines. When I started visiting the Enterprise Libary, this was a large biography section. Walking further into the library, the computer room is on the right. This is where I have gone when I do my online taxes. The computer room of today is controlled by your library card. To the far left are cubicles and study rooms. Just past the computer room is the CD racks. I have downloaded many of the all time best classic rock albums from here. At the border of the general bookshelves are DVDs (I believe music is still by the music books), large print books, and new releases. There are about ten aisles of bookshelves before the room dead ends at a few large tables overlooking the rancher style homes of Enterprise.
Enterprise Library might be small in size. However it is large in substance. I view libraries as buildings to check out books that bring your mind on an adventure. When I checkout a book at Enterprise Library, my mind feels like a jet taking off from McCarran toward Cloud 9.. The books that I have checked out from Enterprise Library have taken my mind on incredible adventures. Adventures that include Elvis jamming with the Beatles in the Hollywood Hills, the Stones recording Exile On Main Street in Necote, self help advice from Mayor Giuliani, and Howard Hughs in the late 1960s controlling his Las Vegas empire from his Desert Inn hotel room.
There is a misconception that book lovers are geeks. However when I am feeling like the Baron of Cloud 9 everything else is irrelevant.
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