Why Worn Out Spine?

I first created Worn Out Spines on Tumblr, the name might sound weird but it came to me when I saw the condition of the books on my bookshelf. They were used, cracked, and their spines were completely worn out.

It might sound like I was some kind of a bookworm, but actually, I was not. Reading for pleasure came into my life with Harry Potter. Unlike what you might think, I didn’t fall in love with these books with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I read my first J.K. Rowling book when my best friend at the time forced Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on me because he thought he’d be perfect for the Viktor Krum role. I fell in love with that book and then read the third, and second within weeks of each other before the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out. And I’ve been reading books – very slowly – ever since.

Growing up, I had a bookshelf in my bedroom, but the only books I cracked open were the science books with the funny DIY experiments in them. As for movies, they were always in my life, I went to the movies as often as I could, sometimes marveling at the sheer skill it took to make them, or re-imagining how it could have been better.

Reading Harry Potter coincided with the time in my life when I was trying to create my own stories. I used to keep them all in my head and would only draw the characters I was imagining. It was probably one of the reasons why – other than my laziness – that I didn’t want to read Goblet of Fire. At the time writing was a means to an end, I was a slow typist, so writing these stories I’ve had in my head for years was a way to familiarise myself with the keyboard and type faster. That’s how I got more of a taste for writing than drawing.

Writing became something I did sporadically over the years, but never talked about it. Now, I like writing more and more. I’m still shy about it, and I’m usually very critical of what I write, but I’ve gained enough confidence to tell my friends that I write in my spare time or even publish some of my short stories.

So that’s what wornoutspines is about, the books I read that inspire me or inspired the movies and T.V. shows based on them. Writing reviews is something I do while writing my own. As I’ve said on Tumblr:

“I used to write for myself, now, I also want to be read.”

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