Welcome

Welcome to my new blog!

So a bit of an intro: I work the morning shift at the front desk of a hotel and when there aren't any phone calls or early check-ins I have a LOT of downtime. So I read. So much in fact that it started to become a thing where one of my coworkers would ask me every day what new book I was reading. Then one day, a different coworker half jokingly suggested I keep a list of how many books I read. Challenge accepted. For the whole year of 2017 I kept a list of each book I read and the number of pages in each. This ended up having a couple of benefits I hadn't foreseen: It helped me not reread the same things over and over (looking at you Harry Potter), and it helped me branch out into different genres. At the end of the year I'd read 46 books totaling approximately 19,677 pages! At first I was proud and amazed of myself. After all, I know a lot of people haven't read that many books in their whole life. But then I realized: that's less than one book a week! I can totally do better! Thus began my list for 2018.

This year I've already read 10 books and this time around have been keeping track of whether or not I recommend them as well. The plan was to post on facebook at the end of the year and let people know which books I really enjoyed. Then a few days ago the idea to start this blog hit me. Instead of giving people an information overload at the end of the year, why not blog about it throughout? I'm not sure yet if I'll blog after each book or once a month...we'll have to see how life goes. But to start out, I'll give a brief review of the ten I've read already in my next post.

Allons-y!