Books and More Books
I started filling in my profile on Shelfari last night in the first step of hopefully utilizing the social networks I belong to more efficiently. I want to join LinkedIn as well, but that’s assuming I can keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, BoardGameGeek and Shelfari first.
Going through my books shelf by shelf last night to add them to Shelfari was pretty interesting. It’s not that there are books I haven’t read in a while, it’s just looking at the chronology of when I purchased all the books. Especially my shelf of Dragonlance books. I got my first book (The Legend of Huma) in 1994 (there’s a note from the aunt who purchased it for me inside the cover). I was 12 years old at the time. Looking back now it’s intriguing why I ended up with the Dragonlance books instead of Forgotten Realms, since they were both available on the same shelves in the bookstore (and I might venture, now the Forgotten Realms books are more generally recognized). But as a teenager whose mother had to purchase most of his books, the cover art on the Forgotten Realms books always seemed more adult than the art on the Dragonlance ones, and that was all my mother needed to know. It helped that the first book I received as a gift was the Dragonlance one, but it’s just funny to look back on the chain of events that led to me having a full shelf of Dragonlance books and only a small but growing pile of Forgotten Realms books.
I recommend that you join Shelfari however, and add me as a friend. It’s always good to get reading recommendations – helps me broaden my experience as well as my library.
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