I must confess, when I first heard the term “blog,” I recoiled. Sounds like some sort of invertebrate, I thought. Further, I equated it with the self-involvement of LiveJournals, thought it was a pastime for the vain and idle. But as I realized what blogs could do and how many smart people wrote them, my prejudices were stripped away. I started exploring the blogosphere and found people that were intelligent, eloquent, and incredibly passionate about books. And, much to my own surprise, I decided to take the plunge and start my own.
Despite this rough beginning, just under a month ago I passed the two year-blogging mark. But what I found more relevant than a date on the calendar was that I was closing in on 100 reviews (a watermark I hit on Monday with my review of This Cake Is for the Party). 100′s not an insignificant number, especially when my reviews tend to be on the long side. I figure if each is an average of 800 words, I’ve written 80,000 words in the last two years — a book-length manuscript of reviews.
Or are they really reviews? I’m not the most critical blogger on the market because I tend [...]
