books.

this is my bookshelf:

I haven't read all the books in it yet. I think this is okay? but some, I've read into the double digits.

Anne of Green Gables reminds me of Jenna, Julie, and Abby. I found it in the children's section at Half Price Books. It even has pictures in it. And I love it.

The Dharma Bums is my link to Shannon, my fellow barista/Starbucks extraordinaire.

So what if there's a copy of the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms?

And two full copies of the entire Chronicles of Narnia?








some of them are children's books, some are theology, classics, or maybe just favorites. But I think I figured out what I want to do... I want to have my own bookstore with a cafe, and I want kids to come in and sit for hours reading, beginning to appreciate literature, expanding their knowledge, riding across America with Kerouac, discovering Narnia with Lucy. Journeying from Savannah to London to Africa to Seattle, and maybe even out of this world. I want it to be like a library, where they can grab a book off the shelf, read a bit, and put it back when they're finished. They don't have to buy any books, but maybe once they've read a certain one a few times, they'll decide it's time. Time to have a fresh one to be personalized; to be worn, underlined, and distinct. To fill someone else's shelf.