Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room

This place is my sanctuary. I love being surrounded by books. As an undergrad, I studied here, I took naps here, I wrote my papers here. I find this place far better than the Powell Library.
There is something mysterious about this room. I sit here and I feel as if I am absorbing the wisdom contained in the books that surround me… through my skin… without even opening them… knowledge through osmosis they say?
The ERR will always have a special place in my heart.
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«When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages — a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.»
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)