Thursday, October 06, 2005
In the description box for this blog, I seem to imply that this blog is for you. Well, I've got news for ya: it ain't. This blog is for me.
I realized I needed one after starting and losing yet another in a long string of "lists of books I have read". And after starting another in a long string of books, only to realize halfway through that of course I was enjoying it, because I had read it before. If I am going to spend half my life reading (and I see no good reason not to), I would like to be semi-productive about it, insofar as I will be able to remember what books I've read and why I read them (or didn't).
So here it begins: the official record. Who knows how many sad little volumes fell by the wayside in the past 25 years, sucked dry and tossed aside like so many forgotten husks. Well, no more. Now they shall be remembered, and either embraced or ridiculed. Or, in most cases, both.
I realized I needed one after starting and losing yet another in a long string of "lists of books I have read". And after starting another in a long string of books, only to realize halfway through that of course I was enjoying it, because I had read it before. If I am going to spend half my life reading (and I see no good reason not to), I would like to be semi-productive about it, insofar as I will be able to remember what books I've read and why I read them (or didn't).
So here it begins: the official record. Who knows how many sad little volumes fell by the wayside in the past 25 years, sucked dry and tossed aside like so many forgotten husks. Well, no more. Now they shall be remembered, and either embraced or ridiculed. Or, in most cases, both.
