Remembering Ray Bradbury

June 7, 2012 — An Evening with Ray Bradbury, authors, Fahrenheit 451, favorite authors, favorite books, Friends of the Beaumont Library, inspiration, libraries, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, writers

“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life.  Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.” – Ray Bradbury

I know that Mr. Bradbury was very involved at the library where my parents volunteered and they were so honored to have met him on numerous occasions. I loved reading his books when I was young and we have copies of them around our home now. Many of them have been signed personally by the author. Farenheit 451 is still required reading in school.  I know my kids will have the chance to read other titles by Bradbury as e-books, even though they were never meant to be read that way. I do not think I will ever re-read them, but there is a chance that I might enjoy listening to an audio version on our next car trip. Wouldn’t Mr. Bradbury get a kick out of that? I understand that he loved the reader’s theater.

These are the Ray Bradbury books that we have signed in our home library. I found the program to one of the events that my parents attended inside one of them.

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This is a beautiful homage to Ray Bradbury that made me sad and joyful at the same time. . .
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost