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land_serene) wrote2026-05-30 07:00 pm
land_serene) wrote2026-05-30 07:00 pm
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Sanalith's Bookshelves
Welcome to A Land Serene, a place for me (sanalith) to organize my ever-growing collection of books. I decided to do this because my collection is getting too large for me to handle without some form of reference. I tried sites like LibraryThing, but I couldn't get the customizations I wanted, and most of them have a limit.as to how many books you you can list at one time.
What you can expect to find here:
Some notes on my shelves:
sanalith) to organize my ever-growing collection of books. I decided to do this because my collection is getting too large for me to handle without some form of reference. I tried sites like LibraryThing, but I couldn't get the customizations I wanted, and most of them have a limit.as to how many books you you can list at one time.What you can expect to find here:
- A master list of all the novels I currently own, alphabetized by author's last name and subdivided into "Completed" and "To Be Read" sections. (Note: This list does not include the multitude of children's and YA novels I left at my parents' house when I got married, only the ones I cared enough about to take with me.)
- An individual entry for each novel, which contains title, author, publishing information, a short summary, and my review. At some later date, I hope to possibly post pictures for each book, but we'll see.
- A list of relevant shelves (tags) that describe each book. This will help me locate novels of a certain genre when I'm bored and need something to read, and will hopefully assist all of you to browse my shelves to find new books you might be interested in.
- A master list of all the manga/graphic novels I currently own. These will eventually have their own posts as well, but I will probably group them together by series as opposed to doing a review for each individual book.
- The post immediately below this one will always contain the books I am currently reading. I joined two book clubs this summer, plus I have my own list of novels I want to read, so this will hopefully keep me on track.
Some notes on my shelves:
- Most of my shelves are genre-related - fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction etc.
- The multi-read shelf indicates books I have read at least FIVE times, and have probably skimmed even more than that.
- The desert island shelf includes my most treasured novels, the ones I would take with me anywhere, anytime. These are the books that never change, and yet evolve constantly each time I read them.
- Anything on the meh shelf contains books that I've read and didn't like, or started to read and never finished out of dislike or boredom. I'd love to be the type of person who finishes everything she starts just because, but there are so many books out there I want to read that I just can't. However, once I've spent the money on a book I'm loathe to give it away, just in case I ever want to try it again. They're not books I would recommend, however.
- Each book has an actual shelf number attached to it. This is for my own person edification, as I often want to read a specific book and can't actually find it. I have now mentally numbered each of my physical shelves, and thus tagged each book with that number.