Heeeeello Readers! How are you? I've been tagged by @riverflows to show my library. So here we go!
Hands on wooooooork!
In this post I've been tagged by my dear friend @riverflows to participate in the challenge by @wizardave, in which we are supposed to show our libraries. Amazing, thanks for the contest idea and for the tag guys!
To continue Kylie's (@riverflows) idea of tagging 3 people, I'd like to summon my friends @fjorenca, @shasta and @rossfletcher to show us their library. Come on guys xDD
I gotta say I find it astonishing that, just by looking at the books, I can not only reflect on what I've read, but also on my life itself. I've never been an avid reader, despite hearing my Dad saying when I was a kid:
Read! Read as much as you can, those who don't read tend to repeat its history! Knowledge is the only thing you'll always have.
But I was always too lazy or too busy doing other stuff, that reading ended up relegated to the last stages of boredom. I remember reading books for school eventually, but it was never by my own desire.
Now... my first experience devouring a book nonstop happened when I was around 20 years old. My first girlfriend broke up with me and I'll tell you, that struck me hard on the chest, poor me, at that time I didn't know exactly how to deal with rejection and was feeling trashed.
The solution? Reading!
I read at that time the brazilian classic Dom Casmurro, a romance written by Machado de Assis, published in 1889. Right after I read Mutiny on the Bounty, a novel from 1932 by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman. From there I've started to get more appreciation for reading and forgot about my broken heart.
Enough talking about my past life, let's talk about the book collection!
The books at my house are not as organized as they should be and many of them are missing due to friends borrowing them forever. Also, most of them are my brother's, but I'll include them as well.
The Living Room Shelf
Those are all my brother's, even though some of them I've read before. Most of them are in Portuguese, there are some titles in English and one or two in German (that only my brother can understand). As you can see we also like to collect old image devices, there are two video cameras, an old tape projector and two photo cameras.
Let's do a close up so you can see better.
As you can see organization is not our thing haha
From all the books in this shelf, the one I haven't read yet, and that is a classic, is this one.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.
It's a classic of latin american literature and It's a shame I haven't read it.
The other one in there that I want to read is the Fight Club, but let's not talk about the fight club, all right?
Worth mentioning are the three old guys piled here. They were my grandma's books and are pretty cool and useful; One of them talk about all the medicinal plants in Brazil - Where to find & what they do -, the other is about diseases - Symptoms & how to treat -, and the last one is about important world history facts.
I have to remember to 'steal' the one about medicinal plants when I finally decide to go around the wold hihihi.
My Bedroom Shelf
Now... this is my own mess, the place where most of my crazy stories are brought to you and where I throw all kinds of stuff.
As you'll notice my taste for books is pretty different than my brother's, even though I read some of the living room books sometimes.
Biography and travel everywhere!
Game of Thrones, the one, the legend! The only frustrating thing in the Game of Thrones series is that Martin does not want to release the next book. Is it part of the plot to kill all the readers of anxiety? Come on, Martin. Book 6 please!
Besides being crazy about travel, I'm also grazy about old rock and blues. In my library you'll find the history of Rock, the biography of Mr. Eric Clapton and Keith Richards and a couple DVD's and Vinyls of the good ol'd Rock'n'Roll
Here from left to right there's a box of The Beatles DVDs, a navigation book and more history of Rock (Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Rolling Stones).
The 4 books after that are old university books; Calculus from the engineering course and Math and Chemistry from the school times (you never know when you'll need them to produce explosives or cook meth hahahahah)
The one entitled 1942 is a pretty good book on the participation of Brazil in World War II. Did you know that Brazil has been in that war too?
The travel books, my favourites! In my shelf there are 3 of Amyr Klink's books, you can check a bit about that in my dedicated post HERE. The other two I recomend for those who like a good travel story are: Expedition Kon Tiki and Into The Wild.
To finish it all there is this box with a lot of magazines, most of them were distributed by my university and talk about inovation and technology inside the campus. I honestly don't know why I keep them hahaha, maybe because it looks cool.
I think this is it. Some books that are not here and I'd like to read are the Sailing Around the World by Joshua Slocum and Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.
Let's see if these two convince me to finally move to a sailboat.
Hope you've enjoyed the ride.
~Lova ya all, Arthur
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