Wow! That's a lot of books! π± It's obvious that books are your life! Or, your life is a book? π
I spotted in the photos some of the authors I read, but I don't have my "personal" library at home, as you do... π Not sure if I have more than 5 books in my collection (excluding comics π)
On the other hand, I do remember my high school days, when I was visiting a public library multiple times per week, reading books like crazy... I can clearly remember my "book" journey... As my older sister introduced me to the library, my first books were "detective niche", standard Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and later on some French writers, whose names I have forgotten (Fantomas series, and a few others)... After that, I moved to SciFi, with American writers... When I finished them, I remember reading a few Russian SciFi writers, which were on a completely different level than Americans... (level of SciFi imagination π)... The next stop was some "local" (ex-Yugoslavia) drama/theater pieces... After that, I fell in love with Russian novelists after reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy... Fyodor Dostoevsky's pieces The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment...
When we moved to Spain, I became a member of the local library, with the idea of learning the language by reading books in Spanish... As it was hard to understand Spanish authors (usually using broader vocabulary), I went with translations of popular "classics" as they would be easier to understand in Spanish... So, I read most of Hemingway's books (in Spanish), trying to understand the "Spanish way of living" as he spent some time living in Spain...
Anyways... I'm planning to visit the library in the city where we moved recently, but somehow, I can't find time for it... It will happen eventually...
Thanks for this post... It reminded me that the "reading flame" is still in me... :)
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