I really ought to do this. For insurance purposes alone. Right now, I just have photos of all the bookshelves and if you tilt your head and zoom... yeah. Which reminds me. I should actually SEND the damned pictures to my agent. Kinnda defeats the purpose not to.

Anyway. I think it is just too overwhelming. Even with a cuecat.

Especially since the 100+ unreads are MOCKING ME.

I've been looking at everybody's libraries and being surprised that there's not more SF/Fantasy. I'm feeling sadly lacking in the modern fiction--though I don't anticipate I'll be changing from my diet of SF/Fantasy/Mystery. I'm such a genre slut.

I'll get the genre-slut-ness going once I actually start putting my books in...my gf is out of town this weekend, and I'm hoping the cuecat gets here soon, so...:)

I read some classic SF/fantasy in high school after discovering Tolkien, but the only ones I purchased were A Canticle for Liebowitz and Time After Time. Both of those were lost in the great basement flood of 1991. That was about it, although I do have a lot of time-travel, fantasy, and SF romance.

Right now, I'm cataloging the stuff the order in which it's coming out of the boxes. Expect in influx of Pratchett, manga, and cookbooks in the near future.

It's interesting to me to ponder whether I will log only what I own, or add things I read but don't own. The composition of the library would differ.

In any case, I happen to neither read nor own much sf/f - Tolkein and Connie Willis are about it for me. Expect a mix of nonfiction (everything from math to classics), romance, mystery, and children's books from me.

I've got a bunch of sci fi things that aren't up there yet. Mostly because they're on the shelves (or stacks) in the other room.

I'm annoyed that the "most commonly shared" stuff doesn't seem to be updating - or maybe that's just on my computer?

Most of my SF is still in boxes.

I have a feeling I'll be shelling out for the lifetime membership once I get them unpacked.

Has anyone here read any Charles Chesnutt? I'm reading him for my short story class right now, and he is incredible. Such a breath of fresh air after Poe! And, actually, Melville as well.

He writes in dialect a lot, so a lot of my classmates are having "trouble" reading him. So, they complain a lot. I'd love to discuss him if anyone else has read any of his stuff. For Monday we read a bunch of the Uncle Julius stories, and today we're reading "The Dumb Witness" and "Dave's Neckliss."

I have, but it's been a while. I do have his collected short stories on the shelf right behind me.