"=)

I like all kinds of books.

And magazines, and newspapers, and signs.

I'll just about read anything.

My favorite books teach me things, like textbooks, or take my mind to new places. I can remember the best books fondly weeks and months after I've read them. Books like Fahrenheit 451 and The Perks of Being A Wallflower that leave lasting impressions.

I think I find that mostly in science fiction--Asimov--but I've read and enjoyed a lot of the classics as well: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's Hamlet.

I can't wait to meet new people and read more books.

=)"

I wrote this on a profile for an account at a book-related website sometime when I was 18.

Only two or so years have passed and yet I feel so different. Every year I look back with disbelief at who I was.

In a year or two I'll accidentally trundle across this web-log and think, "Did I really write that?"