Reading Way More Than Blogging Lately!!

Back to the Blog....despite the best of intentions, I'm struggling to keep up with it.  I have an incredibly wonderful backlog of books just waiting for me on my bookshelf and it's hard to take the time in between these tempting treasures to sit down and write about each one before diving into the next! Not a bad problem to have, I'll be the first to admit.

Yet, the point of my bookblog is to record the titles and my reactions to the books I am reading.  Of course, given my overly wordy style, I get carried away and write more than I really need to and it's becomes more time-consuming than I'd really like it to be,

So, I'm going to move to shorter format and see how that works: a much briefer glimpse at the book, a line or two that really, really jumped off the page for me, and a rating of up to 4 stars.  Readers of this blog will probably notice many 3 and 4 star ratings.  Why? Am I an "easy" grader? No, it's not that. It's more likely a result of choosing books that I have read reviews of and/or articles about their release into the literary world being heralded by critics.  I also tend to read books that have received recognition by the National Book Award, The Man Booker, and the Pulitzer for Fiction.  Not everyone likes to choose their books that way, and I get that.  But there's a LOT of writing going on out there and I feel as though I need help in choosing novels that promise to be a worthwhile investment of time. I am still sometimes disappointed, but most often, not. And I do occasionally throw in a mystery or zombie just to mix things up a bit :)

Just a longwinded way of saying that I expect most of the books I read to be engrossing, well-written, and memorable, and most of them do not disappoint.  And that's a good thing.

So here's to more pithy blogging...and I think I'm going to have to work on the pithiness factor :)