So ASU is hosting a book collection competition which I feel compelled to enter. It's free and first prize is $600. Seems to me that this is the universe's way of validating my ever growing personal library.
Problem is the breadth of said collection makes it difficult to define.
Quite frankly I'm struggling to find any sort of cohesive element aside from a general 'fiction' or 'literature' which seems a little vague. Or possibly 'post-modern lit' which is vaguer still but probably a better fit for much of it, but forces me to leave out authors I love (Carsten Jensen, Tolstoy) and leaves the whole mess feeling rather unrepresentative of me.
See, this is where my issues with specificity become so damn apparent. I have a really REALLY hard time defining what I like because I like EVERYTHING (except Vonnegut, of course) and more than that, I crave variety. Require it really. I'm easily bored, I loathe repetition, and I can't read books by the same author in sequence.
SO I guess the question then becomes, if you were to categorize my taste in books, how would YOU do it?
Lots of love Dear Friend, hope you're holidays were at least tolerable, and that this coming year is better than the last. <3
How do you have time to read? You work all the time and you're always taking 20+ credits/semester. I do so much less and the only thing I can commit to is how to books XD, it's so sad.
ReplyDeleteLol. Oh Hannah, there's always time to read (fossil hunt, knit, sew, cook, raise fish, play the banjo...). The real question is how on earth do people find the time to have a life? Because I sure can't find any, but that might just be down to the fact that I'm not really a social creature. It's hard to say definitively. ;)
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