The shelf I'm building here isn't meant to be inclusive... that is, I am not going to include all of the books that I own, but only those titles that I have read, and that I can actually remember having read. As for me, I am, quite by accident, a media librarian in Utah. No, I am not a Mormon, but I know a few, and we get along fine. I got...
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The shelf I'm building here isn't meant to be inclusive... that is, I am not going to include all of the books that I own, but only those titles that I have read, and that I can actually remember having read. As for me, I am, quite by accident, a media librarian in Utah. No, I am not a Mormon, but I know a few, and we get along fine. I got the idea of becoming a librarian when I was a reader (still am) back in Tennessee and wanted to go on a mission to turn others onto reading literature. It's swell being a media librarian. After all, I dig movies and music too. Plus, due to a staffing shortage, I've been the fiction (except romance) collection developer for the previous year. I was a "late bloomer" with reading. As a kid, I read my father's Kurt Vonnegut (only half understood them at the time) and Stephen King books. As I hit my mid-twenties, my rock star ambitions gradually faded, and I mysteriously developed a quieter, more contemplative nature. I hit the public library in Knoxville Tennessee and started reading books on Buddhism, Catholic Mysticism, the novels of Camus, the stories and novels of Kafka, lots of classic fiction, etc.. I was hooked. Being a Southerner, and looking for anything about the South that didn't cause shame (and there is a lot to find... in the arts, literature, and, of course, music), I got into Flannery, Faulkner, Larry Brown, Cormac McCarthy, Crews.... I have since become a huge fan of Haruki Murakami (not from the American South, obviously), and my reading in general has become more... generalist. I hope to discover more great titles to read by using this site and exploring the shelves of others. Recommendations are more than welcome.
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