What are we doing here?

I've had blogs before, but this is the first time I've decided to write about the books that fill my days. I've always been a passionate reader. At primary school at age 6 I'd finished every book in the primary school and was allowed to walk over to the junior school (just down the service road, so it wasn't off school property) and go to the junior school library and choose my own books to read for the week. It felt such a privilege to be trusted to go by myself and choose the books I wanted to read, without oversight. I felt so grown up. To this day I have relished the choosing of books and the devouring of them whole.

My previous blogs were about crafting, but a couple of years ago I lost my Dad to cancer and stepped away from the online crafting community. I continued to craft but I wasn't choosing projects that were particularly challenging or interesting, so I stopped podcasting and blogging. Essentially I was depressed and couldn't stretch my brain at all. When I started to come out of my fog around October 2018 and I was starting to think about possibly starting to challenge myself again, I got tennis elbow. It was too painful to craft and I knew it was going to be several months (at least) until I could craft again. My come back had gone back on hold again.

When I couldn't craft, I started to read again, the way I used to read before I started seriously crafting. I read from the moment I wake up in the morning until I turn the light off at night. Once I started reading like crazy I discovered the groups on Facebook for authors and readers of different genres of books. I had discovered a new online community, and because of the books I read, the community was filthier than the crafters (though not by much I'll grant you).  Getting to know indie-authors on Facebook has been an eye opener for me. It's really hard work to make it as an author if you are not supported by a publisher. Not only is it exceptionally hard work, but it's expensive too. To support some of those authors I started to write reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. Then I worked out I could connect my reviews on Goodreads to a blog post and here we are!

I'm not sure how complicated this blog is going to get but at the very least you'll maybe find some more books to read that you find interesting.