HungryBookworm

Hello, it's nice to see you here! I'm HungryBookworm. Please, make yourself comfortable and browse the bookshelves.

Introduction

I live in Ontario, Canada and love the energy of urban spaces like Toronto and outdoor spaces with rocks and trees and water, all on the traditional homelands of the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat.

Whether I'm indoors or outdoors, I'm probably reading. My limited tech knowledge is inspired by a passion for bookchat, for what passed as tech several centuries ago, with the invention of the printing press.

Relationship? with technology

I have a voracious appetite for stories, and learned early the satisfaction of hand-printing copies of my favourite library books...twinned with the disappointment that they were never as pretty as the real books. "My" first book was The Adventures of Peter Rabbit: very exciting, many vegetables. (See also: Beatrix Potter.)

This led me to the wonders of a clickety-clack inherited typewriter which was somewhat encouraging: a much more professional result. (Along with an understanding that writing out other people's stories didn't make them "yours.")

And, then, the technological miracle of a little wheel that you could swap out to create italicised text on an electric typewriter, on loan from my grandmother (in turn, I typed out the mailing labels she needed for her volunteer work).

More recently

April Killingsworth from Los Angeles, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Fastforward to a bookblog and learning how to edit articles here to contribute to the broader literary community.

For my first ten edits here (can I really count the first one? I only added the last name of a family of characters in a mid-20th-C author's stub), I was using Source Editing so I spent a lot of time correcting my own "corrections".

Coming soon

Now that I've switched to Visual Editing, I can see how things might be easier than I first thought. I mean, look at the images I've added here (and credited...see I do understand this whole plagiarism thing).

In a short time, I've already learned a lot from others' work here, and I'm looking forward to expanding my skillzzzz and maybe, eventually, helping other bookish peeps to contribute here too.

It's possible I've gotten carried away with user boxes; now I just need to know how to put them into a tidier column. Hmmmm. (I've kinda got it, but more by accident than design.)