What I do

I love reading, I've loved reading since I was a child. Reading has always been my primary past time. I read alot. Alot, alot. Sometimes I read a book a week. Sometimes 2 books a week.

I have no degree. I just know what I like to read, and what, in MY opinion makes a book good. To me. Just to me. I value other's opinions what EYE like, but it's not going to change my opinion. I ALWAYS read a book to its end. To keep hope alive.

I ONLY read fiction. I read to escape the craziness in my own life, not get involved in someone else's REAL drama. And if it's a good book, I get INVOLVED in what I'm reading, I think about the characters and situations for days, weeks, sometimes years after. And I don't like being told what to do, so self-help is out.

I read mostly on my Kindle . I'm at the point where if it's not offered on the Kindle, I'm not going to read it. I love my Kindle, I know some purists don't like them, miss the physical aspect of holding a book in their hands, the smell and feel of a page-turning paper book. I'm not one of those people. I have hundreds of paper books all over my house, and feel like I don't need any more of them. I've got too many already. BUT I HAVE to read more, and the Kindle allows me instant gratification, and has significantly reduced the number of arguments I have with my fiance about my books all over the place. Our last one about Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Douglass' Women : A Novel) "look, I know you like to read in the bathroom, and you know I don't like you leaving books in there (something I ALWAYS do), but I ABSOLUTELY DRAW THE LINE at Frederick Douglass staring up at me while I'm taking a leak!" I couldn't argue with that, & my fiance was more than happy to grant my birthday wish of a Kindle when they came out.

I primarily read African-American literature. Not very much urban fiction. Although, Eric Jerome Dickey falls into that category. I recently picked up one of his books, the LAST book published of the Gideon series, & it was so good that I had to go back and read the rest of the series and THEN went back and am now reading all of the books he's written. That are available on the Kindle.

I read a lot books over and over too. I always find something that I've missed when I read a book again. No matter the 2nd or 10th time.

All that being said, I plan, in the future, in this here blog, to review the books I read from here on out. Horrible, great or somewhere in between. Books I'm reading for the first time or the 30th. I will do my best to do so without revealing too much of the plot *spoilers*. This I will do, I think it's gonna help me, we'll see.