UPDATED February, 2012
The Goodreads Widget turned out to be pretty buggy and most of the time showed simply a blank screen. So, I decided to take it down. My reading list appears in the tab above entitled Reading List.
ORIGINAL POST:
About a decade ago someone once asked me what kind of books do I read. I hesitated, not knowing what to answer. You’d think that such a simple question would have a simple answer. I think I was reading a mystery at the time, so I said “mysteries.” But, I knew that wasn’t quite right. Seems to me I should know what kind of books I read and since obviously my memory is short-lived I decided to make a list of the books that I read year by year. As soon as I finished reading a book, I’d put it on the list.
I’m now going on my 11th year doing this. No one has since asked me what kind of books I read even though now I can tell them. A variety. This listmaking has taught me a few things. First, that I read more books a year than I thought. I average one a month. And, second, as I said before, I read a variety of books. From biographies to romances to science fiction. Now, I’m not saying that I like all the books that I read, but a variety of books interest me. So, that’s the real reason I was stumped so long ago when that person asked me that question. I didn’t know what kind of books I read because there wasn’t just one kind of book that I read.
A couple of years ago I set up a profile on LinkedIn and have been using Amazon’s Reading List to track my book list, this time with reviews. Unfortunately, there’s no Amazon Reading List widget for WordPress. There is a WordPress widget for Goodreads, however. Recently I set up an account there and added that widget to this blog as you can see at the right. Now my readers can see what kind of books I read, and what sort of reviews I give them. Now, having two electronic book lists is going against my 2012 mantra to “simplify, simplify, simplify,” but I thought it a good idea anyway, since this blog and my LinkedIn profile both present a bit of what interests me to the general public.
I’m hoping, though, that some time in the future these lists can be consolidated…
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