Me, My books and My Library

At one point of time before my marriage and before my son was born,I was an avid reader, Thanks to my mom who got me hooked to the books.

I started early with comics, then Enid Blyton( Famous Five series, Secret Seven, Malory Towers....), Nancy Drew. I loved Agatha Cristie and had finished reading almost all of the books when I completed school!!!
As I grew, the books I had read also grew!!! Jeffery Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, Aryn Rand, Robin Cook used to be some of my favorite authors.

For light reading I had a Mills and Boon in my hand. Amidst the traffic of Delhi, hot summer traveling in the bus, Mills and Boon were a great company. The TDH(Tall, Dark, Handsome heroes made you forget the misery of traveling.....

I always wanted to have a Library in my home. A complete wall to myself where I could display my books, the ones which I have collected over the years!
Well such dreams take time to fulfill!

A couple of days back, I had an urge to look for book reading events or groups in Noida or Delhi.
Though these days, I have slowed down but I love to keep a book or two on my side.

While searching for such group I came across the site http://www.shelfari.com.
On browsing it, I could see the online version of the book shelf I had always dreamt of.

This site allows its users to add books to your shelf, categorize them, tag them, give your reviews and opinions about a book, catalogue them.Basically manage your library the way you want.

I simply loved the site.It has a huge database and its possible to search almost any book and add it to your personal shelf.
I have managed to add about 45 books to my shelf which I have read till now and the list is still growing.

The best part I could add that shelf to my blog and show off.

So my dream of having a complete shelf had been fulfilled though in an different form...

Now I have a personal library(thanks to shelfari) to which I can add books, and also showoff...
A small difference being that the library is online and not on the wall!!!