MY READING LIFE NEEDS… A LIBRARIAN’S NOTE

Christmas is nearly upon us—can you believe it?!? Seems like we just took the decorations down a few weeks ago . . .

I’m guessing you, like so many of us, have a long to-do list around the holidays. Shopping, decorating, baking, the church pageant, the choir concert, family obligations, friends you want to see . . . phew. Getting much reading done?

I’m not!

I was joking around with a librarian friend about how having a job and a life really cuts into my readerly and writerly activities. Each year I seem to have less time to read, write, go to conferences, and just hang out with friends talking about books.

She offered to write me a librarian’s note excusing me from my other responsibilities. Which got me thinking about how a librarian’s excuse might go . . .

1. Please excuse Sarah from work. She recently completed a manuscript and will require full bed rest for at least 48 hours.
2. Please extend Sarah’s daily lunch hour. Her well-being is dependent upon being able to read for at least two hours in the middle of every day.
3. Sarah’s TBR pile has grown taller than her nightstand. Please excuse her from all other activities for one month to catch up.
4. I have recently prescribed a writers’ retreat for Sarah so she can be exposed to others who suffer from the same malady she does. Please excuse her for the week of ______________.
5. Sarah’s love of the written word is highly contagious. Please expose her to as many people as possible.

So, how about it–what would YOUR librarian’s note say?

Merry Christmas!

Meet Sarah…

Sarah Loudin Thomas grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Her Christian fiction is set in West Virginia and celebrates the people, the land, and the heritage of Appalachia. Sarah is a fund-raiser for a children’s ministry and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. Sarah has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award and the Christian Book of the Year Award. Find out more at her BRRC profile page.

Sarah Loudin Thomas tells us why her reading life needs a librarian's note to improve her time between the pages. How about yours? Share on X