A Tale of Two Shelfies

Let's personalize our literary explorations! Critics of literature usually begin as lovers of books. We surround ourselves with them. I'd like my students to post two different images, two "shelfies":

1. Post a picture of yourself with your books. Don't have your personal set nearby? Then pose yourself near a bookstore or library shelf that has books in the background that are the type that you've read or enjoyed. See my example, below
2. Post a picture of your books on Goodreads (perhaps from your profile there). This requires first that you join Goodreads, and then that you put some books onto the virtual bookshelves available to you there. (While you are on Goodreads, you might take the time to set up your profile or do some ratings or even reviews of favorite books. This will be a more formal assignment to do later.)

See my examples of each kind of shelfie below. Caption these two pictures or just leave a sentence comment below each of them. This is part of building our literary identities, and using books as a way of making friends and getting better acquainted.

An office shelfie, taken from a video lecture I was recording in 2019

Here's my Goodreads profile where you can see my favorite books
and many of my virtual shelves.