Doing the Shelfari thing has been both fun and frustrating. I always prided myself on my memory, but it amazes me to discover just how porous it really is. Titles keep occurring to me at odd moments now that I’ve got my hard drive working on all this recall. Plus the annoyance of remembering titles but being unable to recall having actually read the book.
For instance, there is a host of books which were required reading in high school that I may well have gotten out of reading because I had read so much other material that the extra credit book reports forgave my lapses re the syllabus. …