A reading life

One of the things that I keep on meaning to blog more about is books. My problem is that as I now tend to read for no other reason than my own enjoyment, I have gotten into two habits.

1. If I don't enjoy a book, I stop reading it before I am done with it. Then I forget about it.
   
2. If I do enjoy a book, I finish it and then go on to the next book without bothering to make any thought about why I enjoyed it. Then I forget about it.

To help me get my book-thinking mojo back I signed into LibraryThing. This has done two things for me already.

First, it's allowed me to get a "currently reading" widget back up onto the sidebar. I see that it is currently already out of date.

The second thing is that it is providing me with an amusing look at the statistics involved with the few books that I've logged into it so far. Among the strange things that LibraryThing can do is offer you an "Author Gallery," or a nicely packed wall of thumbnail pictures of every author in your library (provided you entered the book in and LibraryThing can find a picture).

I have annotated my Author Gallery so you can see what I found so amusing about this:




Please know that I have many more books yet to add.