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There's no escaping COVID-19. It is the dark cloud hanging over most of our heads as we attempt to retain some sort of normalcy while cooped up in our homes. This project began as a side project for those moments after work where I began to spiral into some anxious and depressing thoughts.
I believe in an unread library. There is something about old and new books side by side, mixing genres and authors and decades, that excites the senses and the imagination. Anything could lie beyond the covers.
(Picture provided by wix.com - my library is not this nice!)
Most of my books are picked up at garage sales and off the side of the road. It hurts my heart to see a perfectly good book thrown aside - even if the book isn't very good. Besides, they say there is a reader for every book. I am often not that reader, but who am I to get rid of it when one of my friends or colleagues might be?
I also collect book donations for federal inmates. Any book that is in good condition that I cannot immediately think of a good reader for goes in a box destined for an institution. The provision of current, good-quality reading material to inmates is a cause I hold dear to my heart and hope to continue when this is all over. I also object to the use of the term “inmates”, but when I say federal offenders, I get confused stares. Alas.
Until this dark cloud passes by, I plan to read every book on my shelf (excluding textbooks, reference books, and my Stephen King and Sue Grafton novels) from A to Z, by author.
I’ll explain why I won’t be reading the Stephen King and Sue Grafton books as part of this project later.
For now, this is the plan. That does not mean I will stick to it. I make no promises, other than to Goodreads, to whom I have promised to read 30 books this year. I am one ahead of schedule.
You can expect reviews, listicles, opinions, and words. They may appear once a day, once a week, once a month, or maybe never again. I’ve never been good at habit forming, unless they’re thoroughly self-damaging.
Until next time, maybe.
Holly
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