The Blog

I've decided to finally start a blog.  I racked my brain for many moons as what should be the focus of my blog.  Since I read a book every week to week and half, I decided that would be a good place to start.  I tend to read a book and then move on to the next title, though I often give a brief synopsis to my siblings on our Yahoo group.  That's been fun, but I figured I would get more out of the books if I tried to write a semi-formal review.  I see it as an opportunity to reinforce what I read to support retention.

I must confess, that most of the books will mostly get fairly positive reviews.  I tend  to know what to expect from a book before I pick it up, so I'm rarely disappointed in that way.  The question will be whether the book supports itself.  This will be a work in process, so hopefully improvement will be noticeable.  I'm always on the hunt for new books to add to my list, so suggestions are welcome.

I keep a special book list that tracks what I have read and how many pages, back to 2005, and has the books that I plan to read.  I put  lot of time into it, it has about 300 on the list at the moment with the catalog numbers for the library.  I enter and leave the library within 10 minutes with up to 5-6 books while wrangling a three year-old and 10 month-old.  I think that's pretty good.  I will post my list as soon as I figure out how to.