I regret to inform you (actually, I don't, but it sounds more polite than squeeing) that as of the first of the year, I'm no longer adding to my online reading journal.
When I launched my website, Halfway Down the Stairs was singing its swan song, and I hated the thought of losing the opportunity to accost strangers with booktalk. So I dreamed up the online reading journal as an alternative place to sound off about what I was reading. And so for two and a half years I said something about every single book I finished. Every single one.
I'm done with that. My November/December re-read-a-thon showed me just how much I've come to dread composing the obligatory reactions to each book, as well as how much time maintaining the journal with any level of tact or sensitivity siphons out of my week. It's time to just...read. Time to finish a book and simply let myself be done with it.
I still have a GoodReads account for those of you who want to keep up with every last thing I'm reading. I still have a blog, so if I want to say something about a super-duper book, I surely will. You'll be the first to know.
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Currently re-reading:
Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
