Though I've been reading blogs for years, and actually set this one up a couple of years ago, I've never gotten around to posting anything. Now that I have a job that involves long hours of sitting in an office doing absolutely nothing, I guess I'll use that time to see how long I can actually keep a blog going. The title and everything are probably temporary until I think of better ones.

I like the current meme of vowing to read 50 books and write about them. Since I'm a voracious reader and will probably read 50 books in the next two months, my goal will be to write about the best and the worst of them... And maybe writing about them here will shame me into getting back to some more "literary" reading than I've been doing lately.

I read just about everything. Except romance. And westerns. Well, actually I have read my share of Louis L'Amour, but that was because my grandfather was a huge fan and those books were around. I read everything that was lying around the house in those days, which was why at the age of 8 or so I was reading "Brighty of the Grand Canyon" and the short stories of John Steinbeck at the same time. Those choices still inform my reading habits today, I'm sorry to say... although I guess I have outgrown Marguerite Henry (though I still snake my old Streatfeild books out of the closet to read now and again).

Anyway, no romance, but lots of mysteries, some sf, fantasy, biographies, and fiction (literary and not-so-literary). We'll see where it all goes.