One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for June 17, 2021

Yes!

I was like Ruthie as a kid; you couldn’t get me out of the library!

Me too. I’d check out 10-12 books at a time.

Me as well, loved and still love to read. Usually read 2 at the same time, as one is near my bed and the other downstairs.

Yep! I had wonderful libraries as a kid. The librarians never restricted what I read, nor did my parents. I was reading my way through the non-fiction section starting when I was about 11. It’s rare for me not to have at least 3 books going at once :)

YES! Love the smell of libraries. And the smell of books…particularly new books. A tablet can never replace a “real” book.

Books contain information. Information is power. Power is energy. Energy can warp the space-time continuum. That’s why libraries are dangerous places.

Cameo appearance by The LIbrary Lady in the first panel…

That smell is the Hobo peeing in the stacks.

They can put Ruthie in charge of public relations.

I loved the ‘feel’ of a library as a kid.

That is how I feel entering a library, when I was Ruthie’s age that was only done during school time for the library, during summer time my mom never brought us to a library, she was not into books to her a waste of time, and I made up for that on paper backs to hardback books. And I do have a tablet.