Um, hi.

This is a work-in-progress. My goal is to keep a log of what I'm reading at any particular moment, as well as to sharpen my reviewing skills. When you write enough flap copy, you get pretty good at encapsulating a plot, but you don't get to include your own reactions to a book. This is my venue for those reactions.

My intent is to post about once a week. I typically read two or three books a week (in 2005, for example, I read 150 books). I read lots of YA and middle-grade, as well as your garden-variety adult fiction and nonfiction.

Sometimes I am funny.

I'll also keep a list of my daughter's current favorites, for anyone out there who needs something to read over and over and over and over again to a baby or toddler. (Something that doesn't suck, of course.)

Welcome to my bumpy beginning.