Week 8

On my bookshelf in my bedroom I have a the worn favorites from my childhood such as Harry Potter, Matilda, Winnie the Pooh and Granger the Overlander. To the new ones like City of Bones, Hush Hush, Long Lankin and lots of crime novels. These books say that I never grew out of my love for fanciful worlds and adventure. Mix in a taste for murder and horror. Also 20 or so books that I've bought that are partially read or waiting to be next.  That's what's on my shelf and scattered around my room at the moment.

I think that these books talk about my love for adventure and a passion to see the world, to know more than the small town I'm from. Cliché? Yes but true I read the books I do because for now that's how I stand going to school. Taking classes I don't always understand in hopes of one day seeing cultures and traditions that have lived far longer than any history book. It sounds kind of dark but my books are my inspiration and soon a goal accomplished.

My books, like friends, have come from all over picked up in all kinds of book stores. Mostly form Powell's in Portland because they have current used books and I can take my old unloved books there to get credit sometimes ones that I got from Powell's in the first place. The rest are I've picked up from the Book Bin, Borders and, my favorite, random secondhand bookstores that you can hardly walk in.

In the next 10 years my bookshelf is more likely going to be a book room and the genres will change to more sophisticated writers as they have in the past. But I think a lot of the same things will remain just for nostalgias sake and I doubt I'll ever completely grow out of my favorites even if their childish. And trashy clichés are the best for passing time on trips so there here to stay for sure.

The transition from books to eBooks is taking the market by storm and I am one of those consumers but I will never completely change over unless I'm forced to. The eBooks might be cheaper and easier to carry around but I hate the headache the glow gives me, the complete detachment that is involved in buying online books rather than carefully selecting for hours the best one to bring home. Not to mention the completely wonderful smell and feel of books you can't get that from an iPad or Tablet. But in 10 years I might not have the option of buying printed books or they will be astronomically expensive because publishers know they will make more of a profit if their produces are online.