You may be right – I may be crazy!

Archive of My First Blog – 14

You may be right – I may be crazy!
September 2, 2009

I can barely keep up with this blog, let alone Facebook, Twitter and all the other stuff everyone says I should be doing. I could blame it on baseball – Go Sox! – but though the MLB on Direct TV does take up a lot of time, that wouldn’t be entirely fair. I still have lots of free time for blogging if I could get myself motivated to have something to say. Now I’ve got two other pursuits to distract me from the blog – my reviews at Amazon.com and at goodreads.com. I really, really like online customer reviews, which have led me to a stupendous electric tea kettle, a phenomenal clothes dryer and other assorted domestic wonders. I also really, really like online reader reviews because, given the fact that there is no way I can read every book I’d like to read, they help me figure out which ones NOT to buy. Plus they help me find books I never would have considered. Like Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down, which I gave five stars at goodreads.com. So I’ve taken a couple of hours today to post and rate all the books from What I’m Reading at goodreads. In addition I’ve got four books on my nightstand that I’ve classified as “Reading Now” and one of the two shelves of books in my office that I consider “To Read.” In a day or so I’ll add the other “To Read” shelf in my office. You’ll have to friend me at goodreads.com to see those. When the spirit moves me, I’ll be reviewing those I really, really like on Amazon, not here because this MUST remain “a blog about nothing in particular.” No need to sign in to read the Amazon reviews.