Although being a literature fanatic I only recently discovered the 'Visual Bookshelf' on Facebook. Upon this discovery, I was a little too excited to be honest, I thought that I was quite sad...
However, I spent the next significant time frame updating my virtual bookshelf trawling through my literary memory trying to remember what I'd read, and what I was planning to read. I almost went into literature overload.
Updating my 'Reading Now' I realised that I was still in fact reading 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce. It is really amazing, I love it, I just haven't had the time to pick it up for ages. Not to mention the fact that I'm like a 5 year-old at Christmas when I buy new books and have to start reading them as soon as possible, even if it means slightly forgetting about a current book I'm reading!
Well, my Visual Bookshelf, my identity through books really isn't it. It shows my tastes, my interests, almost everything about me except my face. It's quite strange really isn't it, how a bunch of paper bound in a cover, with some words cleverly organised over the pages can say so much about a person. Your reaction to a book gives you an insight into your own personality... I think I'm trying to be philosophical about it all, when really it's too late to be doing anything of the sort, and in reality I'm just talking about a Facebook application. Oh well.
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