Invisible bookshelves
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dolorosa_12Thirty Day Book Meme Day 7: Forgot I owned it
You know, I'm actually really struggling to come up with something for today. Even as a child, I had a librarian's inclination to catalogue and classify, and the majority of my old books are still back in Australia in my old room at my mum's place, arranged on the shelves exactly the same way they were thirty years and four family homes ago. I can still visualise those shelves, and tell anyone exactly where to go to find any specific book. While my collection of books here in the UK is less extensive and less well organised (just alphabetically by author across multiple bookshelves), I still know which books I own, you know?
What I have forgotten is what the hell happened to my copy of Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan. I know I owned the whole trilogy at one point, I've certainly read the entire trilogy using books that I owned — but this book in the series somehow vanished into the ether, possibly during the month in which I left my student accommodation in Heidelberg to travel around Germany, returned back to the UK to the share house I had previously lived in and in which Matthias was still living, and we moved into the house we still live in now. There was a lot of moving, a lot of suitcases, and a lot of different people's stuff being boxed up and transported to lots of different places, so maybe that's when this book was sucked into the void.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or TV tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite fictional father.
16. Can't believe more people haven't read.
17. Future classic.
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite cover.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
You know, I'm actually really struggling to come up with something for today. Even as a child, I had a librarian's inclination to catalogue and classify, and the majority of my old books are still back in Australia in my old room at my mum's place, arranged on the shelves exactly the same way they were thirty years and four family homes ago. I can still visualise those shelves, and tell anyone exactly where to go to find any specific book. While my collection of books here in the UK is less extensive and less well organised (just alphabetically by author across multiple bookshelves), I still know which books I own, you know?
What I have forgotten is what the hell happened to my copy of Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan. I know I owned the whole trilogy at one point, I've certainly read the entire trilogy using books that I owned — but this book in the series somehow vanished into the ether, possibly during the month in which I left my student accommodation in Heidelberg to travel around Germany, returned back to the UK to the share house I had previously lived in and in which Matthias was still living, and we moved into the house we still live in now. There was a lot of moving, a lot of suitcases, and a lot of different people's stuff being boxed up and transported to lots of different places, so maybe that's when this book was sucked into the void.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or TV tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite fictional father.
16. Can't believe more people haven't read.
17. Future classic.
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite cover.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.