It started quite simple and small you know, mostly because I left a whole bulk of them behind. But I can’t live without them, really… so it became a massive love affair and obsession…
there’s still more on my table, not to mention various periodicals that are piled up all over the place that needs to go somewhere.
I am one who has always loved my books, I keep them and hoard them – and in my desire to maintain the purity of my books, I hardly do any damage to them (such as writing in the margins!!!) including the very textbooks that I HATE. haha!
and then I re-discovered LibraryThing and discovered (along the same trolling lines) Bookmooch. and obviously, I am also holding out for a possible Kindle at the end of this year…. so I started cataloguing things slowly, but surely into LibraryThing, and then cross posting some to BookMooch that I can afford to part with now!
You see, there are some books and authors I love and will never part with – Especially my David Eddings books (especially also because he’s passed on now) and some of the newer and collector’s edition books that I have amassed. However, there are some books that I simply cannot hoard in my good conscience. Some books made me fall in love with myself again. Others made me cry for them and still more inspired me to do so much good. So why would I keep them all?
Listing them books made me feel so good, as if I am passing on some love I never knew I had. so take them all!! haha… and when Kindle allows more of these babies to be stored on it, I will probably not need those shelves anymore YAY!
Also, LibraryThing allows members to sign up for possible sneak previews of books, and some are obscure and unknown just yet. I love that idea (reason why I signed up for LT all those 2 grand years ago) and finally, some of the books for sneak previews are available outside of America (and again, I feel like some stupid second class citizen). So kudos to LT!
More books I may want to read:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo
The Chopin Manuscript by Various Authors (it’s a collaborated effort :O)
The Apostle by Brad Thor
The Siege by Stephen White
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
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