Welcome to my
blog!
Dear readers,
for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Julie and I would like
to invite you to join me on my first real foray into blogging. I say “real’
because I started to blog last January 1st which marked the first
day of my 50th year but in my techno innocence, chose the wrong blog
host. From March til May I was unable to access the site at will and then it
crashed completely in June and I lost several blog posts to the cyber
nether-regions. (Thank goodness I began
copying them into Word documents, I only lost four…it could have been worse)! While
much of my blog last year was a commitment to challenging myself during my 50th year on
this planet, which I might add was rather successful, I’d like to continue with
one of my BIG 50 ideas, using this blog as its forum.
The challenge
that I was most excited about from my 50th year, and what I planned
on blogging about was this: I planned on reading 50, count ‘em, 50 books last
year. After I told my sister, we had a good laugh and then
she suggested I might want to start with half that and go from there. At
the time I thought she was probably right. After all, she is older and wiser
and over 50 (sorry sis, I couldn’t resist!) A book a week with two
weeks wiggle room to play catch up did seem a bit extreme. But if I was
going to do it, I might as well attempt the full 50. My own full Monty, if
you will!
Now that my 50th year is complete I
must confess, dear reader that for a person with a life, 50 books was an insane
amount of books to get through. I’m not a book editor. I don’t do this for a living. I teach
elementary music to children in Grade 1-6, I’m a newly published author (check
out Erosion: a novel), I have a new husband and recently moved to a new city so
life is busy, as it is for all of us.
So here’s my
commitment to you, O wonderful blog reader(s): I will write my own version
of a review for each book and will post 50 book review blogs before December
31st, 2017. The reviews will be a combination of new books that I will read
this year and books that I read for my BIG 50 whose reviews sat on my computer
due to my blog crash. These will be novels or biographies (not reading
material for work, sorry “This is Your Brain on Music”. You
will not make it onto my night table!) These books must be
new-to-me books, ones that I’ve never read before. I will attempt to step
outside my favorite genres (the classics like Austen and Bronte
or historical fiction like the Outlander series) and favorite authors
(Kate Morton and Sue Monk Kidd, and there’s always Julie M…sorry, I
couldn’t resist another plug for my own book, Erosion). My first review
will appear in the next few days as I’ve already finished reading my first book.
Yeah, me!
If you’ve
made it all the way to this point, dear reader, you have my gratitude for
reading and my sincere apologies. Know that I will try to shorten my posts
as I go along, as this is not the forum to write my next novel. I
will keep you updated on my book count and latest review. Until the next time…have
you read a book today?
Julie
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