Saturday, September 17, 2005

Books

I really can't believe that it's been two months since I've written anything new to this blog. I'm sorry I haven't been more interesting. I could make excuses about how time flies these days (which really is true the older you get, because when you are 5, one day is a whopping 1/1,825th of your life, and when you are 25 it is a mere 1/9,125th), or how now that I'm working full time, there is always something to do when I come home (laundry, pay the bills, eat dinner, etc.), but really, it comes down to that there is nothing that I am all that excited about discussing, and if I'm not even excited enough to spend a few moments musing about it to myself, who in the world else is supposed to read it?
I was munching on this over breakfast this morning, when my dad suggested something. It's a good idea.
You see, I read. A lot. I read when I should be sleeping; I read when I should be working; I read when I should be reorganizing my closet for the fall season. I read when I should be writing something whitty and enlightening on this blog.
One thing I've always wanted to do is to document all the books I read. I've tried to start notebooks of lists "To Read," "Have Read," and "Date Started/Completed" but one of my vices is that I often start a book, only to get about halfway through it and find something else that excites me, start on it, and the old one sits on my nightstand getting promises of "I'll get to you when I'm done with this one," but chances are that This One, usually gets interrupted too, so my list of books looks like I've never really read a book all.
So, Daddy's idea is that I use this blog as sort of a "What I'm Reading" page. I won't stick dogmentally to this, of course; I'll be free to write whatever I'd like. And often, my reading intesects with what's going on in my life anyway. But I'd like to go in a different direction here, and instead of just ranting aimlessly on about the small goings-on of my routine life.
So, here's to the new direction of blogging!

P.S.-I'm always (see above), looking for new books to read, so I'm open to suggestions any time. This is a safe environment too, because since we don't actually know each other face-to-face, we won't have to worry about feeling personally rejected because you don't absolutely adore my favorite novel of all time, or I don't find your newest self-help instructional guide to be particularly life changing.

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