"Reality
can be beaten with enough imagination." --Anonymous
Hello,
welcome to my little slice of the web.
Yes, the rumors are true. I'm a book reviewer. I've been
doing so for over 2 1/2 years. I started out reviewing
strictly romance novels. Now I seem to gravitate toward
suspense and little else, unless it's a favorite author in
another genre. Before I began reviewing books, I had a To
Be Read (TBR) pile/shelf of about 50 books. Soon, it became
vicious, multiplying before my very eyes, ballooning to
over 300. I thought I'd be able to decrease that amount, as
a reviewer, but I found that after I read a great book, I
had to go buy the author's entire backlist!
I still review books, but I've decreased my monthly reviews
drastically, and have become incredibly selective in my
reading choices. (See September 7, 2009 blog for more
information.) If I didn't review books, I'd still have a
mammoth TBR, because I can never seem to go into a book
store and simply browse. I can't even go into a store and
buy only one book! It's a compulsion. Hello, my name is
Denise and I am a bookaholic. My idea of a thoroughly
hellish life isn't coming face-to-face with Freddy Krueger.
It's stepping into the world of
Fahrenheit 451,
where books have been burned and the world is a bleaker
place.
My life is currently jam packed with various projects:
sewing, journaling, writing fiction, getting involved in my
church, and discerning which direction I want my life to
take, including its geographical location. I have little
time left to read for pleasure, although lately I've made a
point to go through my TBR like mad, simply because I've
become disgusted with how many shelves I have crammed full
of books I haven't read. I've made a list of a couple books
that I have to buy no matter what, but barring those
selections I've made a vow to go on a book buying
sabbatical. So, yes, that means I've been cutting in to
sleep time just to read, otherwise I'd never get to those
books at all.
Anyway, if the book's good, I'd obviously want to share my
literary euphoria. So, my most recent reads that I just
have to share, you can find reviews and blurbs interspersed
on my blog and here.