Notes from a Loading Screen

This is part one of the Little Library Quest. Just a twenty-something rediscovering reading through the random charity of strangers. Whatever gets left behind in little libraries around wherever I go, I pick up and write about. No agenda, no reading list. Just whatever I find. I haven't really read for pleasure in years. I'd been meaning to get back to it for a while but I genuinely didn't know where to start. I'd been so removed from it for so long that I was scared I didn't have my fast reading and attention span quirks anymore. And then one day, due to peak boredom, I randomly visited my neighbourhood park. There's a little library there. A little blue box tucked in a corner, full of books that people leave for strangers. I hadn’t noticed it before but then I had only been to that park once before. Without thinking much, I half ran towards it. Sitting there in almost mint condition, barely read, was Enid Blyton's Secret Seven Adventure . The second bo...