So it only took how many weeks to post this picture? It's not even close to complete either; this shows 16 books and I have 25. These things are great; each one (or nearly) had to travel across the world to get to my living room, so I've decided that I'm making it a life goal to travel to the countries from which they come. That means that anyone who sends me a Harry Potter chooses a new country for my go-to list. At first it only mattered the language of the book, but now I don't care if I have duplicates -- the only important thing is the country where the book was bought (and that they're all the first one, the Philospher's/Sorcerer's Stone). Here's what I have now in the order they're on the shelf, which originally did have some systematicity I can no longer remember:
1. Scotland, thanks to Chet N.
2. Malaysia, thanks to Lynn S.
3. Czech Republic, thanks to Diana R.
4. China (Western format, from Taiwan), thanks to Ron C.
5. Croatia, thanks to Gordan and Malia J.
6. United States, thanks to Kelson A.
7. Finland, thanks to Brian P.
8. France, thanks to Bernd O.
9. Germany, thanks to Bernd O.
10. Greece, thanks to Heather and Brian R.
11. United States, Denver -- Greek, before I made the rule that US-bought ones don't qualify
12. Isreal, thanks to Banana B.'s mother whose name I don't know
13. United States, Denver -- Hebrew, before I made that rule, same day I think
14. Italy, thanks to Heather R.'s officemate whose name I don't know
15. Japanese, thanks to Jacob H. His gift was the original book that started the collection.
16. Latin -- bought in US, so... Vatican? -- thanks to Turtle T.
17. Poland, thanks to Brian P.
18. Brazil, thanks to El Pirata in Blacksburg
19. Portugal, thanks to Luis P. L. G. F.
20. Mexico, Oaxaca, thanks to me (and Ivan and Katie for inviting me to their wedding)
21. Puerto Rico, thanks to Maria F.
22. Thailand, thanks to Katie (whose last initial I am never sure of)
23. Canada, thanks to a Canadian fellow I worked with years ago and no longer remember well
24. Viet Nam, thanks to Aaron H. (I just got it this morning! It's utterly gorgeous!)
25. Catalonia (Spain), thanks to the girlfriend of Lalo S. (This book arrives next week with her.)
So! Yay! I'll take France and Germany to their homeplaces in December and 4 of my 22 destinations will have been reached -- the U.S., Oaxaca in Mexico, Germany and France. There are still so many countries out there! If you go somewhere not on here or if you have a relative who lives there, I'll pay for the book and transportation, of course, plus you'll get your name on here and you'll give me another lifelong travel destination. Right now the two I'm really hoping to get are Arabic from any country (which might not exist) and Korean, but I think the easiest ones are English from England or Ireland and all the other European countries not on here (Sweden, Denmark, Non-catalonian Spain etc.).
I'm going to post this before all my work gets erased again. Happy Sunday!
So it only took how many weeks to post this picture? It's not even close to complete either; this shows 16 books and I have 25. These things are great; each one (or nearly) had to travel across the world to get to my living room, so I've decided that I'm making it a life goal to travel to the countries from which they come. That means that anyone who sends me a Harry Potter chooses a new country for my go-to list. At first it only mattered the language of the book, but now I don't care if I have duplicates -- the only important thing is the country where the book was bought (and that they're all the first one, the Philospher's/Sorcerer's Stone). Here's what I have now in the order they're on the shelf, which originally did have some systematicity I can no longer remember:
