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Some books I love.

I really, really love books. I always have-- my earliest memories involve being read to, and once I learned how, I read basically non-stop until I became an adult.  I took an extended break in early adulthood-- whatwith college, marriage, a few international moves, and a bunch of gestating. One of my favorite things about being a parent has been reading with my kids, discovering new books together and watching them learn to read (and love to read) themselves. And a couple of years ago, everyone got sturdier and more self-sufficient (and potty trained) and I started reading voraciously again.

I have been kicking around the idea of starting a blog about books for two years now. Between my indecisiveness about form and focus, my easy distractibility, full time graduate studies, and wrangling my four kids-- excepting one pretty spectacular false start-- I haven't committed.

There are already one million blogs devoted to books. I'm a passable reviewer and I love matching friends with new favorite books, but there are SO MANY available resources where you can find great and plentiful book reviews and suggestions. I don't expect I'm exceptionally unique and fascinating, and yet-- here I am.

The bottom line is, I love reading and I love talking about books-- AND I love giving books to people. Basically this blog is my excuse to fling great literature out into the universe. As of now, I have no theme (besides my favorite books), and no particular audience in mind (except maybe my computer friends), and no plan other than sharing about the books I love and launching some of them out into the void. 

I read mostly folklore, picture books, middle grade novels and YA, as well as basically any historical fiction--romance, fantasy, mystery (ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE LADY DETECTIVES), so mostly that is what I will be giving away. I have a degree in english, but it's pretty atrophied at this point-- as I'm sure you can already tell, I am enamored with the em dash and use way too many commas...but hey, stick around, free books. 

It'll be fun.

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